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  • My personal suggestion would be that anything invented or created that we consider intellectual property now can only be owned by living individuals, whom can exploit their creation for 5 years as they do now, fully dictating who and how gets to use it. This is to maintain the material incentive of being creative.

    After those 5 years the IP goes into the public domain, allowing full and free personal and commercial use for anyone.

    There is some leg room for a possible fixed percentage going to the inventor or the public after those 5 years as well, but generally the idea is that yes, being smart and making something great should also reward you with first dibs on any commercial opportunity deriving from it, but ONLY you and not some patent farming conglomerate, and only for a fixed time.


  • What i define is how most actually socialist or communist countries of the past were organized though. See for example the GDR, socially just as conservative as most other countries at the time; to the point that the formerly GDR part of germany is now a breeding ground for far right political power.

    My point is not that socially conservative ideas have merit, but that they are not inherently ideologically incompatible with wanting a not-capitalist economy. And that we do ourselves little good by constantly falling back into the old leftist trope of never being able to achieve political power because everyone only agrees on like, 90% of issues.


  • Not on lemmy, where being left means you have to absolutely and entirely go along with whatever the others feel should be a leftist belief. Purity tests all day every day, followed up by literal campaigns and concerted efforts by other “leftists” against the offending people.

    See the whole online boycott war being fought against .ml because the owners ran afoul of something. Lemmy is just as stupid as other social media but has a different demographic, which makes it at least for the time being more palatable.

    A “conservative” leftist would probably be someone who generally agrees on economic theory but has a less open and progressive view towards social issues such as marriage rights or immigration.













  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.ziptoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comJust stop having kids
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    1 year ago

    I am german myself, citizen of Europe’s capitalism capital. A country firmly in the grip of conservative impulses and the billionaires who play on them for their own gain. I still don’t want to roll over.

    Anyway, why do you not kill yourself then? Be done with it, do something good for the cosmos.

    Or admit that you’re just a fucking coward, too scared to keep on living and also too scared to just exit this plane of existence like your beliefs demand.