• Void_Reader@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nah. To my knowledge we have the second highest tax on energy worldwide. Has always been this way. It’s a tax thing.

    Idk about the tax rates but Germany also decided to become dependent on Russian gas, which is a major factor tax or no tax.

    The article is written by a left leaning press. So if you allow yourself to suggest non-neutrality, then they should be in favour of your argument.

    1. I’m not ‘left-leaning’, that term is too broad to mean anything at this point.
    2. I looked up the author and all his books are titled something along the lines of ‘In Defence of Capitalism’ so idk man

    That dude is actively trying to shape the opinion of people for his own interest. I am confident that this is work to him. He already did this with crypto or with the Tesla stock price. It’s marketing and marketing is work as well. All the political left are already supporting the idea of electric vehicles. Now it’s time for the conservatives. And musk is luring them towards his company.

    If you want to believe his shitposting and constant man-child meltdowns are part of a galaxy-brained plan to convince conservatives to buy electric cars, have fun with that. In reality, he’s just a self-obsessed guy seeking more and more attention and that’s plainly obvious.

    So I guess you are not building something yourself? You just work a well paying job? I can’t rly believe that.

    You’ve never heard of self-employed contractors? If you have a valuable enough skill, people pay quite well for specific projects. Once the project (or your part in it) is done, you can just chill with your money, or accept a new one. It’s pretty straightforward. Won’t earn me billions but is good enough to have a chill life.

    An ideal system does not exist. The one we have is fairly reactive.

    Who said anything about an ideal system? I want a better one. Mainly one that doesn’t burn down the planet I live on. We need to be working on developing new systems, but that won’t happpen if we keep chanting ‘Capitalism good, Communism bad’.

    there is no system resilient against fraud Yet.

    Resilience is not a binary. We could make a system that’s relatively more resilient against fraud and/or short-term thinking.

    I’m sure it’s within the capacity of humanity to improve upon Capitalism. The only question is: will we do it in time to survive the 21st Century?