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  • FastAndBulbous@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mland where did that bring you?
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    10 months ago

    Why does investment entitle people to live off said thing? That’s because there are agreements between the parties involved. If I want to start a business and need seed money I willingly enter a contract with investors just as they willingly risk their investment capital.

    Of course they are more efficient, nobody sets up co operatives. If they were a more efficient way of running a business more people would do it.


  • Geopolitical, as in a combination of political, cultural and geographical.

    I don’t think noting the problem is partially political is enough to say it’s easily solveable.

    I think we’re coming at this from a different philosophy, you see politics as something that is easily changeable, I see it as a product of environmental and cultural positions. Changing the entire world’s politics is a nigh on impossible task.

    You see geopolitics as a variable, I see it as a constraint on the actual variables.












  • We don’t have solutions for starvation at all on a global scale and we do try to feed everyone in developed nations that’s why countries have welfare. I agree the welfare safety net should be stronger generally, but I don’t think people starving to death is a widespread issue in developed nations. The homeless are much more likely to die due to lack of shelter or drug issues.



  • I think you’ve gone completely off the rails here. You said everyone should be free to just do the job they want. I pointed out that perhaps what people want to do wouldn’t match up with what actually needs to be done. You started banging on about squirrels rather than admit that what I said is actually probably the case.

    I’ve never denied humans aren’t in intense competition with each other. I just don’t think it’s relevant to point to squirrels as an example of how humans should work, they clearly are very different from us.