Hacker News Reader

Comment by cscurmudgeon | Hacker News Reader

I would rather live with ads than with literal bread lines my family stood in decades ago, in a socialist state (that funnily had more govt propaganda than ads).

View on HN

How about none of these?

Why do I always need to choose the lesser evil and never good?

Show me a large scale society that hasn’t have both. This over commercialization may be needed as a buffer against hyper scarcity

I don't need to show anything.

Anything newly invented wasn't shown before it was, well, invented.

So what stops us humans from not living in crappy dictatorships and not in shitty capitalism?

Because you’re stuck in a conceptual framing where the existence of things you don’t like is subject to your choice. You’ll never be satisfied if your benchmark for good is that every market transaction in the country should be something you’d endorse, or that nobody should ever show you a piece of content you don’t want to see for their own benefit.

Very odd dichotomy. Did you never consider living in a world that has no bread lines nor advertisements? That seems like the one most would choose. In this country, we have both bread lines AND advertisements!

my local food bank has lines every week

Now imagine that but with everyone in that line except the leaders.

It doesn't have to be black/white, either/or.

The US can afford to feed everyone and still not be 'Socialist'.

I think you are confusing 'Capitalism' with 'Cruelty'. What if I were to tell you, you don't have to be cruel in order to virtue-signal your faith in 'Capitalism'.

Now imagine the entire society standing in such lines, even the best doctors and brightest engineers, for all basic necessities, not knowing if there's anything left by the time it's their turn.

tbh I can't ever imagine american society functioning that well. Someone would get shot

damn "you have to stand in line for food because you're dumb" is rough

Reply on news.ycombinator.com