This is awful. There was literally a Dark Mirror episode written about what a terrible system "page ranking" would be.

It's inherently hierarchical and would incentivize competitive, coercive, and anti-social power dynamics, exactly what we're trying to get rid of. And that's when it's working as designed, not to mention potential for abuse of power is tremendous. After all, whoever wrote the algorithm controls society.

And your financial system....

This is just a gamified version of capitalism. Wealth still exists, and people still gain or lose economic power based on their perceived worth to society.

Still coercive. If your survival or ability to act depends on your popularity, that’s still a form of economic coercion. People will conform or self-censor to avoid losing money. That’s not freedom.

Still individualistic. Instead of a cooperative society, people would strategically vote on individuals that would benefit them rather than the community, reinforcing competition over mutual support.

Even if it’s community-driven, it’s a form of algorithmic meritocracy that doesn’t address coercive decision-making hierarchies in any way.

Wrong sub

Yarvinism-Mussolinism but the Novecento Italiano art is just slop from free tier cGPT

Some people just have more social utility than others meritokkkracy babey. The social voting market product is launched and the peoples herrenvolk democracy wins in the marketplace of ideas.

More tech and algorithms everywhere, everyone's asking for it...

51% attack on the decentralized drain pipe system mainframe, sewer socialism revived

When black mirror writers are hungover and have to come up with a new episode synopsis (scrapped)

That would be a kind of socialist system(to each according to its work) with a centralized system assigning the wealth of every individual by the opinions of every individual.

I think that would have flaws, because the amount of votes you would need to do in astronomical and you won't be able to know the exact amount of work that the person is providing to society nor even measure the monetary value of that work, is just arbitrary decided.

I think a system where every person can sell their products and services in the market without government privileges would be a better and natural option.

(The ranking voting can be a good idea but would need a careful implementation).

Rates are going up

No they are not.

and sales are going down

Sales were already going down before the vandalism. If you can't accept this reality, that's not my problem

Rates are going up, and sales are going down. If you can't accept this reality, that's not my problem

I wouldn't say they're the least of our problems. They're a regressive tax on many essential items. 

Very bad news, then some little good news...

And please tell me if I shouldn't have done that. (All I can do is spread the word.)

Goddammit Wikipedia

I'm presently in one of the economies that aren't getting tariffed by either one. As those trade walls come up, there is now a real market to just buy goods from one side, slap a "made here" sticker on it and then sell to the other side. At present rates you could expect profits on the margin of 30% for doing nothing. I expect those rates will increase.

I don't personally feel too doomed. It think a global recession is possible (probable, even?) but it's going to hit each place differently. I do feel bad for people who are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet at the same time this is also the nation that's kept half the world down for half a century now essentially surrendering the economic primacy by which it did that, out of pure stupidity.

Live somewhere with access to clean water. Grow food. I just moved back to my house like less than two weeks ago after being away for two years, every time I go to town I buy more fruit trees and or berry shrubs, and bulk beans. I was hauling water up the hill to water seeds, until I fixed the pump a couple days ago. Also guns.

If ICE knocks on the door, don't answer it.
Is it a great plan?, not really.

It is called Free markets, free flow of capital and free movement of people.

And you can instantly see in what authoritarian way people are biased by which of these three they choose to omit when listing the elements of freedom.

The tariffs are stupid but they’re the least of our problems. People know how to survive if we aren’t subject to state violence. But they’re already rounding up dissidents without any evidence and sending them to Salvadoran black sites. What’s our plan to deal with that?

I’m still holding out hope that it won’t collapse completely. Congress and the Supreme Court are bought and sold by corporations, and the economy completely collapsing is generally bad for business… so at least there’s that I guess 😭😭😭

Mutual aid. My girlfriend and I are trying to connect with our communities and foster solidarity. We need solidarity with the working class and leftists because when the economy crashes it will be the state and the fascists that come down upon us all. We must not be defenseless.

Survivalism 

This argument is part of the proof that it helps.

I don't think you know what proof is. This argument we are having has zero effect on Elon. He doens't care about this. The only thing Elon has said is bothering him is the vandalism of showrooms and chargers. He hasn't even mentioned any attacks on personal cars. The stock is going down because the board is selling off their stock and sales are down by double digits. And the sales were well in decline before the vandalism started. There is zero "proof" that the vandalism is doing anything other than hurting working class people.

insurance prices going up

No they are not.

Vandalism helps. Vandalism has a positive effect in defeating King Enron.
This argument is part of the proof that it helps.
The stock going down, insurance prices going up, people that were once considering owning a tesler one day, like myself, are now making new plans.
All these things are how it helps.

Ok ... So the vandalism helps us have this argument. What did that accomplish?

This was a helpful reply, thank you. And yes, my sister tells me all the time about the propaganda her conservative history teacher tells her class. It's depressing how many outright falsehoods pass unchallenged in public schools.

I know. I think I worded my post incorrectly because everyone seems to think that I think the USSR and China are/were communist states. I'm just saying R/Socialism is full of MLs that do.

Singapore and Spain too have very different models, but they’re both really well run. I had to get hospitalized in Spain and everything from the speed to the quality of care was fantastic.

Not the argument, the vandalism

I think everyone’s hell bent on the single payer Medicare for all model because they know it’ll never happen. So they can just keep talking about Medicare for all on the campaign trail forever without actually having to do anything. Meanwhile we already have states that have met the threshold for universal coverage within the framework of the existing system, and we could absolutely implement the same/ similar changes nationwide if anyone actually wanted us to get to universal coverage.