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  • raresbears@iusearchlinux.fyitoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhy are folks so anti-capitalist?
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    1 year ago

    The reason as to why here relative to elsewhere is probably because people here tend to be more into free software and privacy and things like that, and caring about those things tends to have an anti-corporate aspect, because of the way corporations tend to act, and aligns pretty well with wider anticapitalist beliefs

    Also the devs and pre-Reddit influx population are anticapitalist so that kind of helps influence the trajectory a bit





  • I’m quite into linguistics so as far as potential jobs kinda related to that I don’t think I’d mind working in translation.

    Unfortunately not sure how great the future for that is with the improvements in machine translation, especially since the only languages I speak are pretty widely spoken and so those for which that’s going to be most developed


  • I kinda agree with this, but only to a certain extent and mostly for Mastodon, and not Lemmy. With how difficult it can be to find people to follow on Mastodon, I think my experience has definitely been worsened by not really having at least a few of my favourite twitter posters on there, leaving me basically to fumble around in the dark slowly making my way towards an acceptable feed in spite of the platform. If I didn’t believe in the potential of the platform and the ideas behind it, I don’t think I would ever put that much time using something I don’t really like trying to make it work for me.

    Lemmy is a different story though, I really don’t care who posts what as long as there are posts. Just like on Reddit, I can probably only recognise a very small number of usernames because it just doesn’t matter so much in this format.






  • Does Singer explore how the limits of one’s knowledge about the impacts of their actions might play into the decisions?

    Only very briefly, and not in a way that I think really addresses your specific example:

    Admittedly, it is possible that we are in a better position to judge what needs to be done to help a person near to us than one far away, and perhaps also to provide the assistance we judge to be necessary. If this were the case, it would be a reason for helping those near to us first. This may once have been a justification for being more concerned with the poor in one’s town than with famine victims in India. Unfortunately for those who like to keep their moral responsibilities limited, instant communication and swift transportation have changed the situation. From the moral point of view, the development of the world into a “global village” has made an important, though still unrecognized, difference to our moral situation. Expert observers and supervisors, sent out by famine relief organizations or permanently stationed in famine-prone areas, can direct our aid to a refugee in Bengal almost as effectively as we could get it to someone in our own block. There would seem, therefore, to be no possible justification for discriminating on geographical grounds.