MolochAlter

This is a site populated mostly by the too edgy or too contrarian for Reddit, with the same flaws in incentive systems as Reddit, why are you surprised lol.

Personally I prefer my software to give me options, I hate when stuff like this is picked for me when equally valid options exist

“Jetpack cat”? Really? That desperate, huh?

All great mechanic driven games do this to an extent.

I had this with Portal and Minecraft back in the day, it’s just because they’re games that force you to think with their mechanics.

My answer to those is always “i code for money, I don’t code in my free time”

That would imply they agree with your definition of right and wrong.

For the same reason the USSR did the same shit to subvert countries all over the world?

Power blocks are the basic concept underpinning modern multipolar foreign policy decisions, it’s not rocket science.

The difference is liberal capitalism won eventually, and the USSR didn’t.

Communism didn’t and never will exist in a vacuum, you know?

Sure, bud, that’s why communism worked every time.

Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.

Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.

Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?

Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.

Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.

No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.

It’s not that, it’s the trade halt that points to something major (and bad for them) happening.