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In your imagination I bet people clap when you say things like that.

In your imagination, I bet you have big muscles.

It would be nice to believe this, but it's just not true. Unfortunately people do remember him fondly. It will take decades before the people who loved him are all dead and history gets to judge him.

Reddit has shown they’ll replace mods when they actually need to (or want to).

But, their business model doesn't work unless those mods are working for free. So, while they may replace mods, unless people keep signing up to work for free to help a for-profit company deliver value to its shareholders, eventually it's going to collapse.

You get to vote in socialist democracies like China, Cuba, USSR, etc

Sure you do, as long as you vote for the candidate that the state prefers. Again, look up "Wir gehen falten".

It's easy to be a hero in your own imagination. The real world shows that most people don't actually do that.

No, I'm saying western democracies are better because you got to vote.

Too bad this is a no Mbappe, no Neymar, no Messi version of PSG. These Champions League games are always more interesting when the opposing team has superstars you might never otherwise see against your team.

On news that Rodri will be out for the remainder of the season: now that's poetic justice. The guy dives at the start of the match, trying to get Havertz in trouble. Minutes later his knee gives out and he's out for the season. It almost makes you believe in vengeful gods who are Gooners.

It's amazing to me that so many people are willing to work as unpaid moderators so that Reddit's investors can make more money.

The first paragraph is literally the same “I can’t justify capitalism but the others are worse” argument again.

Which happens to be true. Maybe in the future there will be something better, but so far it hasn't been found.

The society we live in is an employment based, market fundamentalist society.

Sure, ok. And it's better than a feudalist society where you're tied to the land, or a slave-based economy where you're property.

Instead of lashing out and calling it a silly caricature

I'm not lashing out. I'm just describing it as a silly caricature, which it is. Capitalism is fundamentally about owners of capital competing to make more money by investing in capital and selling goods at a profit. People who don't own capital have to work in that kind of a system. Similar to how peasants were tied to land they had to work under feudalism, or slaves were required to do whatever their owners demanded in a slave state, but it's less brutal. Workers can change employers and their bodies are not owned.

Is it fair? Of course not, but no socioeconomic system that has ever existed in reality has ever been fair.

That being said, how much money would it take for you to change your mind about existence being measured in terms of money alone being a silly caricature?

No amount of money would make me change my mind. There would probably be an amount of money where I'd be willing to lie, but what does that prove? You'd lie too if you were offered enough money. That's human nature, not capitalism. If this were a feudalist system you could be bribed with land. If it were a theocracy you could be bribed by religious titles.

I don't know what you're trying to prove. Capitalism is bad, but other systems are worse. There are purely theoretical systems that would be better, but none of them has ever survived an encounter with reality. But, that doesn't mean we should stop trying. Eventually we'll find a way to improve on capitalism, just like capitalism improved on feudalism.

I just love how the conspiracies reinforce each-other in the most convenient ways.

"Anyone who doesn't get vaxed is going to be put in a FIMA concentration camp!"

"What? That's crazy, where's the evidence of that?!"

"You can't find it because they're censoring everything on the Internet."

So now, not finding evidence of conspiracy 1 is evidence for conspiracy 2!