Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 25/01/2025 10:34, D wrote:

I am not convinced. I believe man is more good than bad. I also believe that the near-anarchy implosion is due to politics manipulating people into becoming enemies. Remove the puppet masters, and the puppets actually get along way better in their natural state, than anyone would ever want us to suspect.

Look, it all goes back to teh basic idea of land as property and not as the commons.
Bunch of peasants cut down forest, plant crops, herd animals, bunch of hinter gatherers comes along and steals crops and takes cattle. All that hard work down the drain.
Bunch of peasants have a meeting., Decide to grow food for a few guys who will train to be good and waving spears at hunter gathererss..
Bad harvest, men with spears decide to steal from next door tribe.
Worse harvest, Men with spears decide to steal from OWN tribe. Justify by sating 'otherwise other tribe will do it and at least we are like you'
I give you Russia today.

 You see... by perpetrating the myth that men without leaders kill each other instantly, the leaders and the state benefits. It's their only justification. If people thought that, we're basically nice guys, the state would eventually wither away.

So long as you have any sort of civilisation at all, you have to have organisation in which personal freedoms are sacrificed for the good of all, and some people with spears are paid to stop other people with spears taking over. . Its a delicate balance as to when the people say to the people with spears. You are such a bunch of total cunts, we will let the other lot take over'
Democracy is a 'civilised' way to achieve this without (too much) bloodshed...
The communist dream of a society with no masters is only possible in a hunter gatherer type scenario. In fact the whole of Marxism is in the end a romantic yearning for the time when no on owned anything more complicated than a spear and a firestick.  Which is why that is generally the level to which people descend under full communism.
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"Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."
― Confucius