Lemvi

sleep on it

Neither, I think it’s none of my business.

I don’t see why we would want to gatekeep the fediverse. If more people decided to use it over centralized social media, I think that’d be a positive development.

And as you know, the fediverse is far from homogeneous. I expect there will always be some very big general purpose “normie” instances like lemmy.world, and smaller, more niche ones for specific communities.

I guess the most efficient option would be to have a distributed setup where most households have some local compute, which they make available for others to use when they don’t need it themselves. Kinda like with SETI@home or Folding@home.

I think there are two separate questions here.

1. Which experiences should not be missed? Those that help you grow. In no particular order: heartbreak, loss, defeat, love, friendship, challenge…
2. How to enjoy your 20s? Well I guess that somewhat depends on your funds, your preferences and your location.

What I’d recommend: Don’t stick to what you know, you have the rest of your life for that. Try new experiences, keep an open mind, meet new people, visit different places, learn things. And chase your dreams before life has got you on your knees.

Interessanter als das Einkommen finde ich persönlich das Vermögen, denn es macht einen Unterschied ob das Einkommen größtenteils aus einem Erwerbseinkommen besteht, oder aus Kapitalerträgen.

https://www.iwkoeln.de/studien/judith-niehues-maximilian-stockhausen-ein-vermoegensvergleich-nach-altersgruppen.html

Not a handful of people, but a ruling elite.

If it was democracy, that’s what we’d call it. But we are not talking about democracy. The post is quite explicit about the fact that after a socialist revolution and before ‘true democracy’ comes a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, which is different.

My grandparents were workers in the GDR. They were part of the proletariat, they didn’t have a say. That’s ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’. A government run by ‘socialists’ with a higher standard of living than that of the general population.

I guess either I am just cynical or you are naive, possibly both to an extend.

You believe that there are people that given unchecked power, will know what the common good is and without fail work for it, indefinitely.

I don’t believe that, which is why I think power must always be checked. Honestly, for that it doesn’t even matter if the power itself has corrupting properties.

Regarding human nature. There is plenty of research (for example with babies) that shows that some behaviour is learned while some we are born with.

This doesn’t answer my question. If the dictatorship is supposed to be temporary, then how does it end?

Also, while I do agree that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is real and quite obviously exists (money=power), I don’t agree that such a thing as a ‘dictatorship of the proletatiat’ can even exist. The proletariat has the absolute majority in the population. So rule of the proletariat is just democracy.

What ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ means in practice, is that just like in capitalist societies, there is a ruling elite, just one claiming to act in the workers best interest.

There is no magical corrupting property to power, it’s just human nature. Having power is better than not having it, so naturally noone relinquishes it willingly. Power allows you to both act in the interest of the common good, and in your own interest. Realistically, powerful people do both things to some degree, so the longer power remains unchecked, the more it gets abused. And even if there was a truely selfless powerful person, the longer that person works in a government office, the more they tend to lose touch with the struggles of an ordinary worker.

Ok, temporary dictatorship, fine. But which mechanism ensures the temporary dictatorship doesn’t turn permanent?

Power corrupts, and if this two step process of achieving a socialist utopia fails and we gets stuck in a dictatorship after the first step, what is there to justify the bloodshed of the revolution?

Böse Zungen würden Behaupten dass die nicht in einem verzerrten Weltbild gefangen sind, sondern sehr genau wissen was sie tun, und einfach nur die Taschen vollmachen.