Well Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize so they don't have much credibility.  For those that know what kind of operations that Obama was behind they know how evil that man truly is just like most people in positions of power.  But hey maybe they will now give it to trump for avoiding war with Iran, lol.

its supposed to achieve 2 tings, first, make poor people available as proletarians to the capitalist rich,

support huge established structures.

it has benefits and negatives.

equity can also be obtained through stocks.

it sucks however to capitalists who want to overthrow the system and controll the currency on their own

Tech companies manipulating voters is not new news. This has been going on for a while. Undoubtedly it is getting worse and is a threat to democracy, but it's far from being a left-wing conspiracy. It's more pro-right-wing if anything. Take the Cambridge Analytica scandal for example. Here's a couple of links from the UK:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump

Holly crap!
I was browsing OneHash and just found it LOL

https://i.imgur.com/9eoT7GU.png

It turns out these days Noble prize became a joke?

Sorry, I am not into politics but I can not really find a category where Trump gets nomination for Noble Prize.
Is this guy trying to buy the honer?

The protection I am referring to is the protection from libel lawsuits under section 230 of the DCMA. If a tech company displays content that is libelous to a third party, written by another third party, it cannot be sued for libel by the defamed party, even if they are aware of the defamation.

This protection from defamation lawsuits is a key part of tech companies business models because they do not have to validate truth to what they display.

The idea behind this protection is it promotes open and free speech, and debate.

Project Veritas has shown google to removing a portion of free and open debate and speech, while  keeping the low costs and positive user experience associated with not having to moderate content for truth.

Taxation is an entirely different issue. All corporations do their best to pay as little taxes as they can while following the law. If they paid more taxes than the law requires, they would be short-charging their shareholders.  Taxing corporations in the first place is a form of double taxation because owners of corporations will pay taxes on dividends or capital gains, in addition to the corporation paying taxes on its income.

My position is generally very left-wing, I am strongly in favour of equality of opportunity and a much lower level of inequality both within societies and across the world. Equally I find the excesses of capitalism abhorrent, the multi-billionaires who don't pay any tax whilst the poorest often have to work several jobs just to stay alive.

But... I think that Socialism is becoming irrelevant as a concept. The whole thing is based upon the power of the workers. Unionise, strike for better conditions etc. Technology is rapidly superseding that. We hear a lot about automation. The tech revolutions we've had already have meant huge job losses in one sector, but new opportunities somewhere else. Industrialisation meant we needed far fewer farm workers - but more factory workers. The computer revolution meant we need fewer factory workers but more jobs appeared in the service sector. The thing with the current wave of automation (with AI playing an increasing role as well) is that there is nowhere left to go, no new sectors will arise where humans can perform the work better than machines can. This will lead to the complete disempowerment of the working class, and the loss of the big bargaining chip of Socialism.

Not sure what the outcome will be, probably some form of UBI, but the fact is that whether we like it or not, Socialism as a concept is becoming rapidly outdated.

there's a different word for that, it's called: __________

(i.e. US and the west are NOT particularly capitalist at all)



My attitude is that socialism can work; on a VERY small scale. Your house. Because you can trust the people you live with to subsidise each other, the practical reality is you have little choice. And if even that goes awry, the impact is contained and small. As soon as you expand the scope of socialism, the exact same parasites that we have abusing an ostensibly capitalist system will commandeer positions of power, simply look at how that happened everywhere socialism is attempted.

But it sounds like you need to have it proven to you before you abandon the concept. There's already a problem; if you're using Bitcoin, you're already a capitalist, as you own individualistic capital. Why didn't you split all your BTC with your comrades? You could do it like this: open a multi-sig wallet, where a majority of the holders is the spending threshold. Why aren't you doing it? It's because you're not a socialist, however else you're deluding yourself.

Думаю, что рубль вообще обесцениться со временем, а Россия введет национальную криптовалюту. В этом году ожидаю курс 200 рублей за доллар.

America is the worst of both worlds, has all the negatives of capitalism with the side benefit of not even being a totally free market, it is very restrictive to anyone in poverty because everything needs a license, degree, or some type of certification which requires money and keeps people poor.

https://d.radikal.ru/d38/1906/e2/33f61e0a14f0.jpgТекущая тема в последнее время становится как никогда актуальной. Биткойн вышел на вертикальную стадию параболического роста.
Вчера цены на главный криптоактив доходили до 13700 долларов. Сейчас немного откатилось до 12К+. Большинство индикаторов с экстремальными значениями. Индекс жадности достиг абсолютных исторических значений - 95.


https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/

Доминация битка доходила вчера до 63%.
https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

Биткойн постепенно превращается в значительно переоценённый актив. Трудно отделаться от впечатления, глядя на график, что мы повторяем историю конца 2017 года. Из топовых альтов риппл по прежнему самый недооценённый. Он, как и большинство альтов продолжает стремительно падать в цене к битку. Почти так же, как и в 2017 году, перед своим пампом. Посмотрим, будет ли на этот раз стадия перелива битка в альты или биток сразу пойдёт корректироваться к доллару без этой промежуточной стадии).

Please discuss the Russia hoax elsewhere. That is off topic here.

This is the classic Libertarian view. I usually am in favor of free markets, but not with the major tech companies. I don’t think these companies are doing business fairly in an objective sense. They earn money via advertising for the most part and mostly do not charge their users. In an open and free market, I would expect to see companies compete with google and other tech companies by paying customers to use their services but we are not seeing that. 

More importantly, google and other tech companies have special protection from the government from legal liability for libel. In exchange for receiving this protection, it should not be unreasonable to expect these companies to be neutral, at least towards mainstream ideas.

What you are really saying is (blah-blah-blah) it's okay for Google to dictate the results of the next election.

And no, it's not.

Nobody is forbidding them to break existing law.

There are simply clear consequences if they do, and they have.

Nobody is going to prevent them from doing things that cause them to do significant jail time.

Who would have thought that giving too much power to companies without regulating them is a bad idea?

Incredible no?

"As per 2019 Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world,"


Capitalism is working out real great America, maybe you should take a look at the homeless population in USA and the ridiculous healthcare/education costs.

What about the environmental

and health disasters

I still hold the opinion that socialism is the superior system for mankind.