Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism - eviltoast

Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

  • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because capitalist countries keep using their massive wealth to dismantle socialist/communist countries. Just look at the history of US interventions in Latin/South America, which replaced a lot of democratically elected leftists with murderous dictators so we could have cheaper bananas.

    Also it’s a lot harder to create a system that works for everyone instead of an oligarchy run by the wealthy. The reason so many countries slide into capitalism is because it’s a pit that self-interested parties are constantly trying to drag people in

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Is China dismantled? No, the CCP enshittified their country all by themselves.

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          1 year ago

          But they are socialist and successful. You don’t get to real Scotsman every example that doesn’t fit your narrative

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            1 year ago

            If American Leftists don’t wish to recreate China, then China is hardly what they stand for; they are not responsible for what people on the other side of the planet have done, and are not obligated to answer for their decisions over the last 60 years.

          • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            The number of billionaires in China is increasing, the fact that they’re enshittifying is because they’re getting more capitalist not less

    • Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It was called the Cold War… jeez, you guys love trotting out one side of a conflict.

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