• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    5 hours ago

    The amusing thing about the people who complain that capitalists are the root of all problems, they don’t make an effort to correct it.

    Take the situation of this story. If your ideals are pure and would have the popular support of a critical mass of people, there is absolutely not one thing preventing the establishment of a company, chartered as a public good corporation, and ran as a non-profit entity to provide these kind of material goods for people at cost, or if someone is willing to subsidise the production even less so if you like. You could even get the seed money from a crowd sourced campaign, or so called ‘angel investors’ no strings attached, no ownership stakes to distribute.

    • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
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      4 hours ago

      they don’t make an effort to correct it.

      An interesting take, but nevertheless, an incorrect one. The individual vote has no power to make significant change at the Federal level unless they’re a billionaire or willing to commit an act of terrorism. (Both of which don’t apply to either of us, I imagine.)