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If there is a council meeting doling out punishments for transgressions, then it seems like this is just one of the normal solutions for the tragedy of the commons. It doesn’t seem like a refutation of the concept of the tragedy, or an example of a community respecting the commons without incentives.

I want to conduct an experiment.

Like, take a cohort of depressed people who have tried all sorts of medication and therapy with minimal success. Kidnap them in the dead of night, induce a coma so they don’t wake up, ween them off their medication, then dump them in the middle of the Amazon rain forest. Pay a native tribe to teach them how to survive for 2 weeks. Then they wake up one morning, and they are just 12 depressed people, alone in the middle of the jungle. My hypothesis is that the stimuli of being in the natural world along with the uncertainty of survival would resolve or at least significantly lessen depression symptoms in almost everyone.

Obviously, wilderness therapy is a thing, and it has been studied and only boasts modest success relative to other interventions. But the limitation here is that wilderness therapy participants know that their stint in the wilderness will eventually end, and that the facilitator will be there to ensure they stay safe and healthy and don’t kill themselves. My hypothesis stipulates that having the full visceral weight of ones own mortality available would have anti-depressive effects beyond simple sunshine and fresh air.

Unfortunately, this would be terribly unethical. Damn ethics. Ruining all the fun science.

I think that’s how wars usually go

Concentrating power is not exclusive to capitalism, and is more natural than not. In order to improve outcomes relative to capitalism, you must make a system which is geopolitically competitive with capitalist states while simultaneously actively avoiding concentrations of power. Saying capitalism is the problem is problematic because it does not account for this. If we limit our scope to saying capitalism is the problem, then we allow ourselves to advocate for systems which not only perpetuate the problem of power concentration, but worsen it.

This isnt a function of capitalism. It is a function of concentrated power.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt6Y8q80guA

Ngl, the experiment sounds fucking rad.

Why are those trannies shooting at each other?

Lol

Most of Lemmy: EAT THE RICH!!!

Me: Idk, liberal democracy with reasonable social safety nets, some wealth anti-accumulation, and a robust education system? We should get there by showing up to city council meetings.

Most of Lemmy: LINUX!!!

Me: but I want a computer where I don’t have to troubleshoot the wifi driver every 3 months…

It is about patriotism. It’s about how powerful, rich politicians who had everything handed to them uncaringly sent average people to their deaths in an unjust war. Sounds pretty patriotic to me.

Yeah, my hot take here is that the church wanted an American pope to be able to clap back at Trump, and try to sway some of his religious supporters.

There’s more of us then there is of those traitor fucks.

I highly doubt this. Sure, there are more people opposed to Trump than there are Trump supporters. But Trump supporters are more cohesive and easier to mobilize. When it comes to getting people off the couch - particularly to achieve goals through violence - I expect you’d be outnumbered at least 3 to 1.

Pretty sure this post is shitting on peogressives

And yet I keep seeing Trump’s name and picture next to German words I can’t read here… curious.

It has not. This is the same group of people who were (and still are) young earth creationists 20 years ago. 1/3 of the American population is just completely divorced from reality, and will believe any stupid bullshit an authority figure tells them.

Please tell me where this has been tried. I know of no major government entity which has enacted Georgist tax policy.

If you hate capitalism, you are missing the big picture - the enemy of the average person isn’t the accumulation of money and respurces, but the accumulation of power - money and resources being but one aspect of this. Capitalism is good because it mostly occupies the psychopaths with becoming rich, rather than seeking seats of power in government. Capitalism is the best form of innovation and resource distribution we have yet devised, and works well for people with proper safeguards in place preventing accumulation of too much wealth and ensuring the welfare of the average citizen.

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The issue is that you presume the options are either public housing or a tent. You are missing the other option, which is simply allowing developers to build more housing on their own and removing the ability to speculate on land value, forcing land owners to earn an income only by the benefit their land provides to others. Zoning reform, good urban infrastructure, and Georgist tax policy do this without necessitating terrible concrete commie blocks everywhere