Any topic is good. Don’t care about format or where it’s published as long as I can access it (substack, random PDF, journal, etc). Looking for deep and rare thought, but essay length for a short reading.

EDIT: Also I am particularly looking for stuff not as much in online or nerd culture.

  • teodor_from_achewood@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There’s never any real discussion of detailed fixes in this kind of complaint—because that might acknowledge we can fix the problem without overthrowing the system. There’s never any argument about how under socialism (or some other alternative economic model) public policy tradeoffs, political failures, or scarcity just wouldn’t exist.

    • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I will acknowledge that is in there but he spends the entire article talking about how much of a loser you are for saying Ugh capitalism, then throws in those two sentences. That’s not an actual discussion, it’s the article equivalent of drawing the person you disagree with as the virgin loser and yourself as the chad.

      • teodor_from_achewood@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        He’s right to point out that either no alternative is offered or the alternative is just more regulated capitalism with a stronger safety net.

        • JoshCodes@programming.devEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yep, and an intelligent discussion could have been had, if this had been the point of the article. Instead we got 4 paragraphs stating which people are saying this phrase and the rest discussing how much of a loser those people are.