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Growth must be positive and sufficient to expand baseline living standards. No regime can consume its way into prosperity. State leverage can and must be used to prevent monopolies from capturing…
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If you're a member of DSA, the bare minimum answer to the question, "would you call yourself a capitalist or do you reject capitalism?" or "are you a capitalist?" is that it's false framing, and that private ownership of capital, as a social institution cum legal regime, is flexible according to society's needs; that the existing distribution of capital in American society does not, at present, benefit the vast majority of Americans; and that reform is necessary to solve problems where private ownership has dangerously monopolized resources to the detriment of the public's well-being.
To clarify my position, which I am aware is right-wing so far as left-wing politics more generally are concerned:
Property rights and capital ownership are not natural laws; they are legal regimes created by society to serve human needs. When the private concentration of capital reaches a point where it monopolizes essential resources and starves the public good, democratic government has a duty to restructure those rules. I do not believe in ideological purity or idealisms. The test of an economic system rests with its outcomes: whether the distribution of capital actually works for the people living under it.
Little one is down for the evening, study time! 📖
Eventually, I will probably have the following spaces on Tertulia: public professional, public personal, and private. Some day I'll figure out the best way to share family photos without a bunch of group chats, and context collapse!
96GB GDDR7 Memory; PCIe 5.0 x16 Interface; 188 RT Cores; 752 Tensor Cores
oh my gosh y’all IG is a drug. — Meta employee
https://www.wsj.com/tech/massive-child-safety-trial-against-meta-starts-in-federal-court-130e3739
Gotta try running this:
Build type-safe, boilerplate-less MCP servers and clients in Scala
Haven't been super on top of my flashcards — family stuff (fantastic! but time-consuming). Plus, I burned a couple of nights researching governance and social media theory, prototyping, thinking; I, ill-timedly, adjusted my caffeine intake just as our little family needed more of me; and I spent a couple recovery evenings on RuneScape: Dragonwilds too. Time to lock in, though: JLPT registration for the December test is this coming Monday (8/24)!