My partner and I were talking recently about apple watches and how if they existed under a different system then they could really be for the greater good. What are some other things that would have been very good under communism?
Video games. Good indie games tend to be better then good AAA games.
Art in general. Less artists being forced to produce soulless corporate art would be a good thing.
Science. No more scientists begging for grants from corporations and having to be beholden to private companies. No more being paid to pretend that lead is safe so you can keep your job type scientist.
Automation. Imagine getting a fat check every month because your job got automated out of existence.
Movies, youtube, and the internet. The actual interesting stuff fueled by genuine interest would be predominant rather than buried under a mountain of soyface thumbnails, react videos, disney/marvel products, paywalls, and astroturfed reviews and forums.
the internet
Such promise. I remember all the buzz about the information superhighway and the early internet utopians that thought we were headed to a golden land along with neoliberalism. Boy that didn’t turn out well, did it?
Amazon is unironically based as fuck, it’s just the union busting and other capitalist bullshit (dumping product to maximize profits) that make it really evil. When you consider what they did to get big, most of it is just infrastructure stuff. You can’t really say that about a lot of companies who base their value on extraction rather than creation. Socialist-alternate-reality Amazon is probably universally adored.
This is why I always say that the idea of breaking up Amazon is stupid, and what we need to do is nationalize Amazon. And Walmart too while we’re at it.
Breaking up monopolies is socdem nonsense about “competitivity” and “big business oppressing small businesses”, while having infrastructure from a monopolized company built up is likely to make the transititon to socialism easier.
A case could be made that Amazon is proof positive that, with modern technology and logistics, a planned economy could actually work.
Labour lol
