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interesting thoughts

I'm asking because I wondered if dependence on colonial wealth could inform an argument that capitalism is historically contingent, that it was possible for there not to be capitalism

There is no doubt that the unpaid internship is exploitative, moreso than the already discouraging/tiring path to a first job programming. But I also think you were right to accept it as a step towards launching a career. It's something you will never have to do a second time... onward and upward

Great magazine, loved the articles about modern sailing ships and sewage handling by aquaculture.

I believe as individuals and society we are over reliant on unnecessarily advanced technology and should seek alternatives to distance ourselves from this.

I feel about the same way, to the point I don't even really want print media to die. We're still looking at something right in front of us, but at least it isn't a screen. I've been framing it mentally as part of an intentional relationship I want to have with technology, and I think generally others should consider this too. Adopt technology selectively and critically, don't just let them foist new consumer durables on you, LOL.

To quote @Giyuu: I do not not live in China/am not Chinese/do not know [much of] the language/etc. But from the outside, it seems that due to reform & opening up, Chinese go through much of the same shenanigans we do, whether it will be eventually solved through planned economy or not. They have bosses, landlords, and cops; they work too much and compete for stressful jobs and rigorous education, and there is sure to be some amount of corruption even with the victories of the Tigers & Flies campaign... a friend from Tieling, Liaoning province personally complained of his folks having to pay bribes but did not get into why.

I'm considering starting a lemmygrad whitelist server with a couple mods. Maybe you guys would be interested!

comrade Jacob must have studied something well-compensated or become very skilled to pull 70k a year!

It's a nitpick, but we mean the class right? Gotha programme etc., workers as individuals need to contribute some value to the commons and society more broadly, sort of thing. But that's still the workers getting everything: First as an individual and second as a member of socialist society.

I played it for a couple weeks until I got tired of it for now. Me and the gf really like it!! It is an awesome continuation of the TerraFirmaCraft vision.

Let's see if the less clever of the bourgeois can figure out the falling rate of profit / secular stagnation

Wow, you made me wanna move there, very cool. It's really too bad the geopolitical conditions are such that we can't, say, go there on a working holiday visa.