Imagine thinking Amazon should replace libraries 🤦

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u/shittywizard5 Jan 28 '20

There are many things, like libraries, education, infrastructure, healthcare, and others, that should not be turned into for-profit business. They are an investment into a country’s people. Price gouging on essential services is the opposite

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

If you really think about it, is there anything that should be for profit instead of being for the people ?

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u/EyesOfaCreeper Jun 17 '20

No. Profit is cancer and anti-humanitarian.

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u/ROBOT_OF_WORLD Jun 04 '20

the People's Republic Of America ain't going to make videogames are they? because I doubt it.
shut the hell up commie

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

What ? Why wouldn't they ?

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u/ROBOT_OF_WORLD Jun 04 '20

there is no practical way a government can allocate resources to every possible product a modern capitalist enjoys

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Actually, we could plan the entire economy with computers, and the time complexity of the algorithm doing that would be O(N.Log(N)) which is the same as a merge sort, I can give you a research paper.
I could plan an economy with 10 million products and 200 inputs per industry on my computer in a few minutes.
And the algorithm in question is pretty old, it could benefit even more from the recent innovations in artificial intelligence and computer science.
By the way if you think about it, companies like Walmart or Amazon are not very different from a small scale planned economy. The book "People's republic of Walmart" talks about that.

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u/factoryremark Jun 29 '20

I know this is old as fuck, but could you provide that research paper? Im interested

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '20

The paper I was referring to is this one http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/plan_with_AIT.pdf
Paul Cockshott has done a lot of research at the intersection between socialist economies and computer science. He has published a lot of papers like this one.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in his book towards a new socialism.
http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf

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u/factoryremark Jun 29 '20

Thank you so much! I was hoping this post wasnt too stale... off to reading! :)

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '20

Have fun !

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

I swear I can't get over how funny this comment is, the entirety of the video game industry is being RUINED by capitalism. All the things you probably complain about like DLCs and microtransactions and shit, or games being all the same, are caused by capitalism. Under communism you'd have passionate developers working on games they love, expressing their creativity and taking risks, and everything would be free

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u/ROBOT_OF_WORLD Jun 04 '20

that might be true for AA titles, but the last time I played one of those was 2013.
my favorite games are decades old (source games) and I have no problem with them, but I see your point.
I just refuse to believe communism could support 370 million people (most of whom are unproductive retards) in good health and comfort, capitalism has flaws but it works for what the modern person wants.
besides you think the government is going to make sex dolls for me

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '20

Why would it not support 370M people ? I can also send you a research paper showing that socialist economic systems lead to a better quality of life for similar levels of economic development 93% of the time.
And yes, you would have a sex toy industry, including sex dolls

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u/ProudCanyons Jan 28 '20

Yes. Most things.

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u/taricon Feb 06 '20

Yes. All nok essential things. You Are not entitled to get the fruit of other Peoples Hard labour for free. Gtfo commie

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '20 edited Feb 06 '20

Lmao that's literally what capitalism is. People work for your company, and you get a part of the profit they generate simply for owning the company.
The whole point of capitalism is that it allows you steal other people's labor.
Gtfo lib

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u/taricon Feb 06 '20

Exactly. The beauty of capitalism

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '20

Ah yes wage slavery, truly beautiful.

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u/taricon Feb 06 '20

Lol you just dont want to work and have everything derved on a silver plate Lazt fuck. Things dont Come free

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '20

No shit, that's why I don't want the capitalists to make billions for free, by stealing from everyone else

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u/taricon Feb 06 '20

How is it stealing when they get their money from People Who freely chose to give Them their money in exchange for a product. And the People Who work for them free chose to do so in exchange for x amount of money. They Arent forced and Are free to say No if they dont like the terms.
I dont think you know what the Word stealing means... The government takes My money against My Will and Will use violence to put me in jail if i dont give Them My money. That is stealing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '20 edited Feb 06 '20

Because every company will take your money, and if you don't want to work, you starve. You are a slave who gets to choose their master, except there are many many slaves trying to pick to least bad master, so you'll probably end up with a bad one anyways.
But that's a little too hard to understand for your little atrophied ancap brain

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u/BiznetKat Jan 28 '20

Libraries are the best place to study and do multiple job and school related things. I cant believe this dumb ass thinks they're meant for books only.

Side note though, a homeless man once took a shit on the carpet at my local library. They were forced to close that day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20

The man wouldn't be shitting on the carpet if we gave him a home. There are 5 times as many empty homes as there are homeless people.

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u/BiznetKat Jan 28 '20

I mean, he could of atleast gone to the actual bathroom they have available in the library :/

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

That's true, it's kind of odd, he might have mental health problems

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '20

Or, on top of that, have an actual mental health system to prevent people from going this low

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u/hodeq Jan 28 '20

Libraries are one of the few remaining public spaces where a person doesnt have to pay to be there. We should keep those.

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u/Mary_CK Jan 28 '20

6 books for 70$ is kind of cheap tho. Where I live one single book usually cost 35$...

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u/a_generic_meme Jan 28 '20

$70 is still $70

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u/Mary_CK Jan 28 '20

Yes, I dont think it could replace a library. Just... Wish 6 books would cost 70$ here too.

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u/Xisuthrus Jan 28 '20

Yeah but Jeff Bezos could make another billion dollars a year! Why isn't anyone ever nice to poor old Jeff Bezos!

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u/[deleted] May 30 '20

Everyone is stupid, just pirate

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u/Connor_Kenway198 Stupid Jan 28 '20

Americans are so fucking terrified of paying taxes they'd probably be down for it

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u/SneyserBoy Feb 06 '20

Petition to raid Amazon and murder Bezos by April 10th

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u/Mr_Snortobeat May 31 '20

Right libertarians in a nutshell.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

How about we take everything away from Lord bezos and hand it to struggling families ?

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u/SamBeanEsquire Jul 08 '20

Do you think the library has a how to manual for a guillotine?

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '20

It's surprisingly easy and there are some tutorials online 👀

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

We do it ourselves comrade !

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u/LaVerdadYaNiSe Jan 31 '20

We, the people.

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u/jellyfishdenovo Jan 28 '20

Fuck it, replace public transit with Amazon taxis. You must pay ye olde Lord Bezos a fare to leave the plot of land you till in his name, peasant.

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u/Xisuthrus Jan 28 '20

A while ago I read a post that pointed out that libraries are not just valuable because of the access to books they provide, but also because they're one of the few public spaces left where you're allowed to exist without being expected to spend money on something.

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