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Zyansheep

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Zyansheep 80 points 3 years ago

I'm not sure about discrimination against customers based on ideology, but I'm pretty sure you can't discriminate against customers based on protected class (sex, race, orientation, etc.) What this supreme court case does (IIUC) is that companies are now allowed to not provide services to protected classes if those services constitute speech. So if you are a restaurant owner, or a hotel, you still can't refuse a gay couple, if you are a cake designer, you can't refuse to make a cake, but you can refuse to do anything remotely gay-related to that cake, if you are a web designer, you can refuse to make something altogether because the government can't restrict or compel speech (and graphic design is speech).

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Zyansheep 23 points 3 years ago

Its either the fascists, or people trying to make money from tribalism.

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Zyansheep 13 points 3 years ago

"Thank you for the lemmings kind stranger!"

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Zyansheep 13 points 3 years ago

Very important distinction.

It'd be pretty bad if hotels or restaurants started restricting access based on sex or race!

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Zyansheep 12 points 3 years ago

I guess they could put (federated reddit alternative) next to the link

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Zyansheep 11 points 3 years ago

Define what makes a rust program "real" lol.

Any kind of library that does a lot of low-level stuff (kernel syscalls, custom binary reprs, ffi) will have to use unsafe. But most applications built using these libraries rarely need to use unsafe at all, because the libraries act as safe wrappers to make sure the app developer isn't accidentally violating invariants allowed by the "unsafe" keyword.

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Zyansheep 6 points 3 years ago

Another way to solve the issue is to have users and communities be instance-independent where the instances only provide storage for communities and users they want to support.

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Zyansheep 4 points 3 years ago

Who they gonna replace them with? Paid employees? That'd go against their whole business model! XD

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Zyansheep 4 points 3 years ago

Well, Roe v Wade set a precedent, which was then reverted ~50 years later, so I'm not sure how much precedents apply to the supreme court (it definitely applies to lower courts tho)

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Zyansheep 3 points 3 years ago

Is it open source and on fdroid?

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Zyansheep 3 points 3 years ago

People can do that now, but only for occupations that qualify as "speech". Owners of "public businesses" (i.e. places that you can walk in to) still aren't allowed to forbid entry to people arbitrarily.

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Zyansheep 3 points 3 years ago

Oh no my unjustified beliefs!

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Zyansheep 3 points 3 years ago

What about those who don't know who Neil Diamond is? XD

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Zyansheep 2 points 3 years ago

Find people on the internet who seem similar to you and see what they did and what the result was, see what the best result was and do that. Takes a long time, and may or may not be worth it, but for expensive purchases it may be.

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Zyansheep 2 points 3 years ago

I think that was the majority opinion's goal, they think the line between what is speech and what isn't should be spelled out more minutely with more legal precedent rather than what we had before where all speech in relation to selling a service was regulated under anti-discrimination statutes.

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Zyansheep 2 points 3 years ago

Give the lady her borgre!

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Zyansheep 1 point 3 years ago

The article seems to characterize efficiency solely in the context where it optimizes a process to the detriment of other useful aspects of the process (i.e. removing redundancy makes a system more "efficient" in some sense, while also making it more prone to disruption).

Putting aside the article's weird definitions, I do like the article's overall message: grow slow and sustainability rather than as "efficiently" as possible. I can see how the impulses of growth at all costs and short term efficiency gains at the cost of long term stability might be related to certain forms of capitalism, however capitalism is not defined (as in the definitions given in your other comment) by rampant disregard for caution and sustainability, (there are capitalist societies today known for their careful planning and risk management!). Capitalism as a concept is only defined via private ownership of capital, so I think my original comment still stands: capitalism is good, sometimes.

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Zyansheep 1 point 3 years ago

Based on your definition of what it means to be "anti-capitalist" vs "anti-market" I think there may be a difference between the definitions of capitalism we are working under. Could you give me your definition of capitalism?

While I do understand that non democratically accountable forms of economic activity may harmful or explotative in many situations, I do also see the argument for private ownership of "the means of production", in so far as it can be beneficial to the overall effectiveness and efficiency of production and innovation. I don't think anyone can scientifically or even philosophically completely justify one economic system over the other, and that so far, a mix of the two has been what most countries have settled on.

Capitalism means that we vote with our dollar and when those with capital have more votes and those without, they control policy generation and governance.

One last thing I'd like to point out, while in capitalism, the collective choices of those with money decide what products are made and services provided, this decision power doesn't (and shouldn't!) in well-functioning democracies extend to the government. I do understand the concern of large accumulations of wealth causing large imbalances of power which then affects government policy, and I believe this is a major problem (especially generational wealth). But I do not believe it is one that cannot be prevented and protected against, nor do I believe it is a defining property of "capitalism".

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Zyansheep 1 point 3 years ago

Mmmmh, aracnids

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Zyansheep 1 point 3 years ago

Most of these definitions (with the exception of the Century Dictionary) would suggest a definition for "anti-capitalism" as primarily being against an economic system based on private ownership of capital, not the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. While these two things are compatible and perhaps even causal, they don't inherently require each other. You can have extreme wealth in a non capitalist system, or a capitalist system with strong caps on wealth accumulation. Perhaps a better description for your position would be "anti-extreme wealth" rather than "anti-capitalism"?

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