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[–] davel@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Quit reposting this shitty meme. It’s not applicable.

You are literally the kind of liberal smuglord this meme is about.

If you want a society where everyone works for free

I want a society where the capitalist class is abolished, so that it no longer leeches off the labor of the working class.

Why would I pay you for something I don’t even use?

You’re using it right now, or else you wouldn’t be talking to me.

And you don’t even own?

$ curl -s https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
>    | jq -r '[.admins[].person] | map(select(.name == "davel")) | .[0].name'
davel
$
[–] Zyansheep@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are literally the kind of liberal smuglord this meme is about.

Forgive me, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to engage in some liberal smuglordery :P

I want a society where the capitalist class is abolished, so that it no longer leeches off the labor of the working class.

Very cool goal! I wish you luck. However, to achieve your goals you must be rational and pragmatic. The situation in the context of this thread is thus: we have for-profit company Framework making laptops that are highly repairable, friendly to third party mods, and open source software (all things I hope we all agree are "good"). We also have the rest of the industry, most of which are also for-profit which does not do these things. I view the rhetorically pragmatic choice here, given the assumption that Framework contributes to some higher individual utility compared to anything else, is to support their mission, as opposed to dissing them as that in theory may put people off and they may stay with the less ethical companies instead. Or start your own laptop company that's even better than framework and then diss them ;)

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The fact that Framework makes nice laptops is orthogonal to anything I’ve said. I might buy one some day. I’m not “dissing” Framework in particular over other capitalist laptop makers. My only specific criticism is in their trawling for free labor from their fan base.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not really involved in this conversation, but you are literally calling this guy a smuglord while smugly treating him like he's an idiot.

The way you're using that meme looks like smug feelgood self-supporting blanket rejection of any argument as being from a 'smuglord'.

Grow up. Live your communist dream, but if you try to shove it down someone's throat, particularly in an inapplicable situation, don't be surprised if you find yourself choking instead.

[–] davepar@mastodon.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

@bastion @davel
Workers being paid nothing is more of a capitalist dream, is it not?