• pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzOP
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    1 year ago

    Most of those problems go away simply by banning capitalism, having direct democracy, abolishing the prison system and accepting that people have the right to be unhealthy and that includes kids.

    Or one could advocate an authoritarian society where junk food is largely banned or made unavailable, rights are arbitrarily denied individuals when they are convicted of a crime, having AIs run everything politically and having the state own all corporations and all profits.

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      1 year ago

      I was intending to make a more general point about the ability of children to make their own decisions. Obviously, I think the idea of punishing people for being unhealthy is ridiculous.

      Also, I appreciate the optimism, but I don’t think capitalism would go away if you banned it.

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        1 year ago

        The former is a debate worthy of its own separate thread, I think.

        A simple ban on capitalism alone wouldn’t work, I agree with you on that. I’m of the opinion that the government and workers’ unions ought to own the means of production and, when they do, they need to fully automate said means so money isn’t necessary anymore, and when that happens, capitalism will go into the dustbin of history where it honestly belongs.

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          I probably come down more in the side of coops and unions than government, but yeah, that’s probably more doable than an attempt at a ban.