Re: NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder

On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 07/07/2024 11:51, D wrote:

The lie I do not buy is that the government will fix everything. I see
politicians becoming richer and richer, I see regulations becoming more,
I see more and more government contracts being awarded to corporates who
are in bed with the government.
 

State Capture
Crony Capitalism
NO Free market at all. Carefully regulated market

This is the truth!

As I said, this is not my definition of free markets, this is my
definition of early stage socialism. And since this, as per your
message, seems to be what you mean with free markets, we will just talk
past each other.
 

Yup.  Its a bastrdised blend of fascism oligarchy and Maexism
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The big money uses Marxist socialist ideology and metaphysics to sell the idea of benevolent state control to the  Liberal chatterati.
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Meanwhile the peasants get fucked as per usual.

What is sad is that the peasants believe that marxism will set them free, but as you say, they are the ones who will be fucked the worst by the current ideology.
All of us here are probably one variety or other of a technical specialist, that is, members of the technological priesthood. We will be fine one way or another.
The peasants are the ones who will suffer.

What I do find interesting though, is that we see a lot of the same
problems, but we land in dramatically different solutions.

Indeed. I see the retreat of the State from such an overwhelming presence as being the only way to actually workout what works, by a less regulated market.

True. It is an interesting business challenge to move ones own business to such markets and through such legal constructions as to do that and maximize long term profit.

Unfortunately many societies that have faced this in the past ended up with complete collapse and a regression back to a lot less civilisation

This does scare me. I'm short term pessimistic and long term (30+ years) optimistic.