• @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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      Sure bro lemme teach my aunt to make her insulin, her own needles, her own glucose test strips and all that cheers

      • Yeather
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        Maybe we should all specialize, and pay each other with our own goods, or better yet, a sort of representation of goods we all agree is valuable, so you can get one persons goods with anothers.

        • @XpeeN@sopuli.xyz
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          That’s basically what happened before money was invented. Imagine being a shoe maker and wanting to get some food, can you convince the sellers to take new shoes for the food/groceries EVERY DAY?

        • OBJECTION!
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          Kinda seems unfair that somebody’s aunt should have to purchase insulin she needs to survive, like she shouldn’t have to work harder to have the same lifestyle as someone without a disability. Maybe we should just give her the insulin she needs to survive, and compensate the people who make it out of some sort of common pool of resources everyone is required to contribute to, in order to distribute the costs more fairly.

          • When I was younger, I tried to design an universal constructor.

            Unfortunatelly, I was using Roblox studio to do this.

            How’s that for insanity?

            I also carved a log with a knife, hacking off pieces in an attempt to make a 3D printer

        • @MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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          102 days ago

          That’s good work for a lot of reasons, but there’s a world of difference between “open source and theoretically DIY” and it being anywhere near realistic for everyone to actually do it themselves.

          It’s good that I have access to advanced technology without having to have learned how to build it from the ground up. That’s the whole point of civilization – doing more together than we could do apart.

    • 小莱卡
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      142 days ago

      ah yes let me just manufacture my own toilet paper on my 50m2 apartment

    • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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      -113 days ago

      Like how people were gifted ability to have more knowledge at their hands than previous generations and rapid communication, and then came to the conclusion that the earth is flat, vaccines are poision, and facism is holy?

      Humans are dumb fucks. They will inevitably fuck up even the most perfect utopia they arrive in short of some mass hive mind brain washing Equilibrium style. i don’t hold that high an opinion of human society.

      Leave the world to the animals. Humans are a failed experiment and a virus to the world.

      • Kras Mazov
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        122 days ago

        This is some eco-fascist ass rethoric. You’re not taking into account how all the issues you listed are only possible to exist in a capitalist society, where misinformation and anti-intelectualism is accepted and allowed to grow instead of directly addressed.

        • @Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml
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          Environmental issues did in fact exist before capitalism. Human arrival coincided with mass extinction in the Americas and in Australia. That’s certainly not to say these issues are unavoidable or that socialism isn’t the solution (because it 100% is) but we should see environmental issues as transcending others so I disagree that I would place this in an eco-fascist lens. Rejection of science certainly occurred in feudal societies as well

          • Kras Mazov
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            You’re right, I should have been more specific in saying that current anti-intelectualism is deeply linked to capitalism and not that it is something that happens only in capitalism, my bad.

            Also, I wasn’t referring to that as the eco-fascist rethoric, but rather to the commenters last phrase about how humans are a “failed experiment and a virus to the world”.