Yeah, they’re all the same. Musk, Trump, crypto, religion, AI - they all offer a simple, easy solution to all problems. It’s false hope, but it’s reassuring and we’re all susceptible to it given the chaos of existence.

Reality is complicated, politics is complicated, running countries is complicated, and no one has all the answers. We have to work on those together. No one person is going to solve all the problems we have, and these cunts absolutely don’t give a fuck about you or me or the ‘working man’.

It works because it’s such an easy sell and it’s easy to fall for it. I have before too. But being good at battering people and choking them out does not by default translate into being able to run a country (maybe thousands of years ago hah).

Thats the other aspect to these things. We tend to mistakenly assume that because a person is good at one thing, they’re automatically going to be good at everything. People like Musk and McGregor are also very good at selling this, because they’re generally talking to people who also have a limited understanding of the topic.

I honestly think if we though local civics and critical thinking on a global scale you’d massively reduce this kind of problem, but who knows.

Well, he certainly would be whether he realised it or not - if by that you mean easily manipulated by outside interests (like musk and god knows who else)

Seems like a good reason to put him in charge to me.

Interestingly, it seems the last government were sitting on a massive prison overcrowding crisis, and there is now talk of sending prisoners to Estonian prisons to ease it.

To be honest, I’d imagine that’d be an even stronger deterrent for these pissbags. I can’t imagine an Estonian prison being very accommodating!

Just waiting for the token drop 😂

“in Canada we don’t kill them, we just objectify them!”

Sharing your opinion is not the same as sharing your art.

I agree that monetisation as a standard probably isn’t ideal, but I think you’re fooling yourself if you think a lot of the artists and musicians here aren’t posting with some intent to drive you to their monetised content. Social media is a great place for artists to promote their work in general.

I thought the whole point of the fedi was to encourage open social media. If you don’t want to see artists or monetised content, you can block those creators or instances. The fedi isn’t subject to your preferences or mine, after all. I’m sorry, but I don’t think you get to decide what does and doesn’t happen here.

The thing is, monetisation wouldn’t even work the same way here because there is no algorithm, so it’s not like you’d get (as) many people trying to create rage bait to game the algorithm.

Your initial post came across as if you begrudge any creators or artists making any money from what they post here. If I misinterpreted your position then my bad, and I don’t want enshitification either (although given the decentralised framework of the fedi, I’m not sure how that could even happen in the traditional sense).

100% agree. This attitude actually ends up devaluing art and entertainment because it basically boils down the to the idea that “it’s not a real job.”

I bet you’ll find that some do have patrons or subs or something similar.

If people want to share their work for free, that’s cool. If people want to charge for their work, that’s also cool.

The fact is, being good at something creative takes the same time and dedication as anything else, but because it’s entertainment or art people expect it for free ‘because it’s a passion’.

Should doctors passionate about medicine not get paid either?

The fact is if you want a rich culture full of awesome art, the people creating that art need to be fucking paid.

I’m not necessarily in support of monetising the fediverse or anything like that, but I also don’t begrudge anyone creative trying to actually get paid fairly for their work and time.

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Point 2 is better explained in the article. I don’t take this as discrimination, more that while I will always aim to empathise and understand as much as I can about the black experience and be an ally, it’s something I will never have direct experience of, so maybe there are some conversations that I don’t need to muscle in on.

Yeah haha, I think point 2 is well explained in the article, maybe it’s too generalised here.

Still good general advice for posting in my opinion, better to think in general.

Indigenous population? Hahaha go and read some history.

I don’t really understand why this is getting so massively downvoted.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren’t all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?

Are you upset because you got rejected by a taller guy?

But the ultra rich are actually playing with that too and fucking over every single person that invests thinking they’re going to be ‘financially free’

Adoption will never happen because block chains are shit at everything except being a Blockchain.

Let’s fix the system we’ve got instead of inventing a new one that’s worse in basically every way.

Are you fucking five?

Exactly. We need to wipe them out at the next election.

It’ll probably be against the law soon at the rate we’re going.