founder of likud

Its always compelling to play “evil” bingo. And I always find myself guessing too tame compared to reality.

A patent system that does not grant a patent beyond 10 years. So nobody can sit on their inventions forever and deny the public the benefits which they extract out of public money. A patent system that requires a proven product in the market place and not a concept of a product in somebody’s imagination, to prevent patent trolls from stifling real innovation. A patent system that requires the patent producer to share the secrets with the public if public funding was used to develop a patent in any form.

A copyright system that actually understands product boundaries and doesn’t exist as a nebuluous concept of “This name is associated with us hence it violates copyright”. A copyright system that doesn’t prevent fair use.

This cannot happen under capitalism as it exists. So i am not really digressing.

In door plumbing has a long history, so perhaps to be specific: the flushing toilet

If the foundations for innovation were already laid for humanity… Only thing capitalism invented was normalizing greed and preventing the majority of people from enjoying the fruits of advancement.

We never survived without cooperation. refrigeration, Microwave would never be invented in the capitalistic environment that has been festering to this point. At least you and I wouldn’t be allowed to enjoy it without paying rent for it.

Shall i give you examples where capitalism perverted an idea that works by distributing benefit into one that funnels said benefit to a few people? There are so many. Infact, not funneling the benefits is the rarer occurance. Insurance is a scam. AI is just theft of our own collective knowledge held hostage.

Remember, people still invented stuff before capitalism.

if you remove money from the equation, would you do the same thing you’re doing right now?

Necessity is the mother of invention. Not money. Money is just the necessity RIGHT now because the leaders you elect are only interested in themselves just like you are. If people bothered to rise up above their base desires we can do more than say “toil all your life or die”.

Do you really feel like all the advancements of the past 200 or so years have made our daily lives easier?

if you want an academic discussion about world war accelerating events you will have more luck pestering your local professor rather than demanding evidence from someone who isn’t intending to apply too much rigor on a lemmy post.

oh nuanced! you’re so sophisticated! first don’t dismiss others as if they have no idea. acknowledge you may not be the smartest in the room. Otherwise you come off as a clown.

critical thinking is when you can differentiate a multimillion dollar corporation defending itself vs. pilots and crew who have nothing to gain and a lot of risk coming out about how bad their ex-employer screwed up and swept it under the rug. this sort of stuff is not uncommon from corporations.

I am more likely to believe that Air India was screwing up because they have a history of this. If a lot of people complain about smoke coming out of places it shouldn’t be, then i would listen to them rather than the owner who pretends everything is fine.

username checks out. You should leave the critical thinking to people who aren’t born yesterday

only if you deliberately bury your head at evidence or on Boeing payroll.

that was a horrifying read as a software engineer but also as an Indian.

You speak like a LLM

you’re a dumbass

Yes actually. Unlike you I am not ignorant of better examples. You should try to take your head out of your ass every now and then.

At least my iteration can’t be mistaken unlike yours (Your sarcasm was too thin to notice for me)

Hey good thing is people are not as numb to the class warfare nowadays as before so your coy attempt to make this partisan isn’t as effective.

How else can I conclude your reply with the context being Israel bombing and killing 30000+ people in Gaza?

Without western money your society will have collapsed a long while ago.

Spoken like a typical dumb American. The world has seen more prosperity and wealth before the west plundered it all.

Why won’t the Americans let in the chinese manufacturers to find out? Surely if the cars are trash they have nothing to worry about?

Somehow the worlds gotten so rotten nowadays that I feel like he saved them. But this is just me pushing the thought process along further as personally I am not THAT religious.

Every time I think Israel can’t do worse… it gets worse.

Also this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/08/israel-finance-minister-bezalel-smotrich-gaza-starve-2m-people-comments

Israel went to great lengths to remind people of the Holocaust and caution against Antisemitism but looks like they forgot themselves.