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[–] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Innovation is when you charge $300 for a vial of insulin

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was thinking about the crazy financial products that crashed the real estate market in 2007/8. I don't think a communist would've come up with that shit. I kinda know this because I was a communist then (as I am now) and I could plainly see that it was bad news.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't be surprised if the people who came up with it also knew it would be bad news, but also that it would be good for them individually.

    Like the way those securities worked, nobody was gonna be caught out individually. The only way they go wrong is if the market takes a bad turn and then you'd have a horrible domino effect that takes it from bad to worse, but at that point your golden parachute activates and everyone gets bailouts. Kind of brilliant, in a fucked up way.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    It's only genuine curiosity if you're being exploited for it.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    but I thought China is Capitalist since Deng Xiaoping but now it's communist?

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    China does good thing = capitalism

    China does bad thing = communism

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Salvador Allende was this close to using crypto and gaming to create a radical decentralized universal basic income before he got 9/11'd by Nixon, but go off, queen

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    laughs in Sputnik

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    cope and seethe

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Innovation is when we find new ways to exploit and hurt each other. Anything else is just frivolity

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Humans are only curious to make money didn't you know?

    Back in the old old days god would give you modern banknotes to be curious about what happen when you put seeds in dirt.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    China already leads in tech. Even in the places where the US has held onto their advantage the longest, like military R&D, China is overtaking us, but on an "overall" level we got lapped a while back.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Curiousity about borger will lead Americans to the stars.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    This fuckin' gusano

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Communism is incapable of directing all the brightest minds towards making ads 3% more manipulative which is why its doomed to failure.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    And yet Hexbear continues to exist after USAID went offline.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago
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    Simone Gao, time to find another anti-China grift angle

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    If only China still had landlords forcing people to sell their children into slavery and women being unable to walk more than 50 metres because their feet are bound. Imagine how advanced a country they could be then. sadness

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Oh, it's the mistaking the output of capital as being innovation and not just rent-seeking episode again

    seen-this-one

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    I find that line of thinking ironic considering how throughout the 10s, so many smart people who could have been doctors or engineers instead became web developers and data scientists for glorified advertising companies

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Hey Simone Gao, why was the cult you are a part of setting children on fire in the 90s? Was it because of innovation?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Chinese short documentary

    Actually, I was off by a bit: in January 2001, a group of Falun Gong cultists self-immolated in Tiananmen Square, bringing their children with them and setting them on fire, leading to the death of a 12 year old girl. This is who western liberals support.

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  • they should have published this article 20 years ago, by 2023 it was obvious weapons grade copium. like they were far and away beating the US in every emerging industry.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago
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    A social and economical order which gives people more free time is incapable of nurturing curiosity sure

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