astar26

joined 2 years ago
[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 months ago

You see, the problem with us virgin Jews is that we are not fucking

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago

That's funny, considering iran by itself is imperialistic. Or is it convenient to ignore because they're on your side?

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

Sure I'm with you on that one mate. Just a shitty year, it will pass

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Depends. For my country we were on the verge on a civil war, and then a massacre started a real outwards war... Guess the silver lining is we won't have a civil war anytime soon...

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 44 points 2 years ago (12 children)

You guys are just on 4th?

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 years ago

There's a dissonance between allowing complete freedom without intervention and keeping the market truly free - if an organisation can simply buy all it's competition and expand forever, that's just a monopoly which is a closed market.

As for socialism - I grew up in a kibbutz, which is one of the only examples a successful socialist system (imo). And this too, is time limited. My reasoning being having a small group where everyone know each other and decide to join of their own volition. Most kibbutzim failed after the 3rd generation - people did not want to share anymore (and took some very bad financial decisions).

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 years ago

Capitalism is based around the possibility of financial and social mobility and uncontrolled market. The concentration we see today goes against this idea. I'm about to respond my original conclusion about socialism in another comment, but I start to think we went too large scale here too, and some balancing is needed.

[–] astar26@ttrpg.network 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's not socialism, that's a country with social services. I've seen multiple time when people from Scandinavia were offended when their country was called "socialist" - they are not. The economy is capitalist but the country offers strong social services.

Another funny thing - when reading about the us you realizer that it's just a broken market and snowballed problems. For example - the government invests more than any other country (per capita) in the health sector. The thing is it got out of hand.