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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I don’t know about anyone else, but I got into computers at a young age because it gave me a sense of control over something. I didn’t understand everything, but I could do a lot of trial and error, read things and experiment, build cool things, and I shared a sense of community with some random internet strangers based on that knowledge.

    In a world where we are so powerless in so many other ways, why did we insist on bringing that power dynamic into the new bright tech sphere? Why did we have to do that? (N.B. this is rhetorical questioning).




  • Zarathustra@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlGorbachev............
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    21 days ago

    I’m not sure whether this is just trolling or whether you sincerely believe what’s in the meme, so I’m going to push back on it.

    I think pretty much everyone is in agreement that the USSR’s economic model had fallen to shit by the 1980s. Why on earth do you think they would even entertain switching to anything approaching capitalism?

    Ever heard the phrase “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us” joke? It wasn’t for nothing. Centrally directed economies don’t tend to work very well.