I noticed you excluded my entire post except for the parts about communism, which nobody brought up except you.
I'm not interested in rehashing the team game of "capitalism vs communism vs whatever" for the millionth time here, and nobody but you brought up the latter, so you might safely conclude nobody else is, either.
Do you think you can take off your team hat and have a discussion about what we were talking about? Hint: it was capitalism (specifically late stage capitalism). Try responding on the topic without any distractions (like mentioning the other team as you might consider it).
After all, sports teams don't get better by pointing fingers at all the other teams, they get better by looking inward and finding what they should change. Here's an example:
> What’s insidious about [the term late-stage capitalism] is that it tricks you into believing we can’t make things better
The term absolutely doesn't do that, because it's 2 words, one meaning capitalism, the other meaning "a later stage of". You're free to suggest ways to motivate companies to stop enshitifying things for profit within the confines of late-stage capitalism, without resorting to one of your dreaded ideologies. But you'll have to actually do that. So let's look inward: how can we fix that?
I am confident that you are smart and capable of discussing the effects we're seeing in the article, arguably driven by late-stage capitalism (not a slogan, just 2 terms, one a noun and one an adjective, despite what you may personally believe and unconvincingly assert without evidence).
I'm further confident that you can do it without bringing up "the other team". Give suggestions here. Look inward. Again: look inward. A third time: look inward.
Wait! I worry what you heard was, "rant against communism yet again, argue over the meaning of terms yet again", etc. I did not say that, so please don't feel like you need to keep doing that. Instead, try to participate constructively.
For example: you might suggest ways to motivate companies to stop enshitifying things for profit within the confines of late-stage capitalism, without changing the topic to how much you dislike a given ideology. But you'll have to actually do that. So let's look inward: how can we fix the issue?
I'm not interested in rehashing the team game of "capitalism vs communism vs whatever" for the millionth time here, and nobody but you brought up the latter, so you might safely conclude nobody else is, either.
Do you think you can take off your team hat and have a discussion about what we were talking about? Hint: it was capitalism (specifically late stage capitalism). Try responding on the topic without any distractions (like mentioning the other team as you might consider it).
After all, sports teams don't get better by pointing fingers at all the other teams, they get better by looking inward and finding what they should change. Here's an example:
> What’s insidious about [the term late-stage capitalism] is that it tricks you into believing we can’t make things better
The term absolutely doesn't do that, because it's 2 words, one meaning capitalism, the other meaning "a later stage of". You're free to suggest ways to motivate companies to stop enshitifying things for profit within the confines of late-stage capitalism, without resorting to one of your dreaded ideologies. But you'll have to actually do that. So let's look inward: how can we fix that?