Do you recognise any usernames on Lemmy?

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Although Lemmy's userbase is quite large,it still is small enough that I do often see the same people in comment sections. It feels though, that I should recognise more names, because I can only remember around 5 individual ones.

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It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

Look, I'm all for the squid to control the means of propulsion, but it's hard convincing others...

I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.

r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.

(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

i'm for r = 0.5 btw.