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> implying "crony capitalism" isn't just capitalism in its most advanced state There is no fundamental difference between a state that owns a corporation and a corporation that owns a state. In the absence of a state institution that has absolute authority, people with money will end up buying...

I grew up in a very white-collar, comfortably middle-class, center-right environment, so until I left graduate school I never really had any direct experience with why unions were needed. But in case anyone still has any doubt that corporations hate you, here you go:

In a slight tangent, but one which I feel is still relevant to the topic, Reddit has recently announced their worst policy yet: Reddit will now start warning and banning posters for upvoting "policy-breaking content," where the "policy" is Whatever We Feel Like. Just a few hours after this...

Normally I'd be peeved over this thread getting pretty badly derailed by a debate over the efficacy of copyright law, but this is an issue I don't have a solid opinion on and both of you seem to be making good points and I'm learning a lot, so I personally am willing to let it slide, That said...

DON'T ASK QUESTIONS; JUST CONSOOM POAST AND THEN GET EXCITED FOR NEXT POAST

You could literally use that comparison to deride anyone who ever had a change of heart about their life. Forgive me for not taking your comparison seriously. If anything, the fact that I once fell into the consoomerist trap should make my testimony even more credible, since you know that when I...

@The Name of Love gets it— this isn't a radical political proposal so much as a call to personal self-improvement. I don't really have much more to add to his excellent list.

Closer to Consoomer than producer, but of course you'e right that it is a spectrum. I'd need to know more about your life to really make a solid judgement, and I don't really feel comfortable doing that.

@Big Steve I don't want to be too harsh on you, because from your description it sounds like you're trying to keep from being socially isolated and have a creative hobby that allows you to both express yourself and make money. The very fact that you've produced novels that have actually been...

Glad you liked it. Sadly, I decided to kill that story when my school commitments started getting more serious, and the Star Wars SI fic I noodle around with for fun often goes months without updating. Part of the reason I update my fanfiction stories so infrequently is because I had a crisis...

@King Kravoka How can you possibly say I haven't given you a solution to getting out of a consumerist funk? Have you even read my posts? I literally spent 4 pages talking about how social atomization has led us to our hopeless condition, and that the solution is to develop real connections to...

Strawman Count: 2 Nobody is arguing for abolition or prohibition. Just moderation. The fact that the mere idea of personal restraint engenders such a vehement (and dishonest) defensive reaction here indicates that many people here feel personally convicted by any moral call that might pull them...

Nice strawman. It's the amount and isolating effect of the consumption that is the issue, not the brute fact of the consumption itself.

Not really. How are you going to enforce the NAP, once you've eliminated all possible enforcement mechanisms as inherently evil and unprincipled? The true test of an ethical code is whether you can live by it, and your ideology is an embroidered piece of needlework to hang in the front parlor...

An opinion that you would, naturally, enforce by law, social/psychological manipulation, or physical force.

And this is why libertarianism is so seriously flawed. Absolutely everything we do affects other people. The error at the heart of all libertarian thought is that the individual is the smallest and primary unit of society. The libertarian consistently frames social and moral imperatives in...

Being concerned about the "private issues of others," especially when they actively cheapen and degrade the common culture, is simply a major part of what it means to live in the same society. It is possible to be too intrusive and violate other people's privacy after a certain point, but that...

Have we really degenerated into judging avatars now? Fine, I'll take the bait. I use the Sceptile avatar because I happen to like Pokemon, but it's a balanced part of my life— I noodle around in Alpha Sapphire maybe an hour a week when I have nothing else to do, for nostalgia's sake as much as...

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