“My point was basically that capitalism maybe the worst, except for every other economic system.”

Except no other economic system has been actually tried, except for, perhaps, fascism, which is really an offshoot of capitalism, anyway.

You’re talking about two completely different things.

“Do you also read Behind Closed Ovens and proclaim that the restaurant industry must go?”

No, just capitalism.

“Communism/socialism has actually demonstrably (ex. Russia, China, several South American countries) more potential for bosses to abuse workers than capitalism, because political power is so intimately tied…

They don’t, actually. Both of those countries are/were state-capitalist.

Who’s proposing doing that?

Alrighty then. That’s good enough for me.

Maybe. I’m not entirely sure where the perceived disagreement here is.

I didn’t say you did... flaming ball of helium and hydrogen...

“I don’t think any market model can fix that shit.”

Yeah, exactly. I never said that we should replace capitalism with a different market model.

Sounds like a lot of alienated labor. Sounds like capitalism has got to go.

Came here to post this, actually.

For the first line; I’m a guy and a girl said that to me exactly after I asked her on a date. She used it as her reason for not wanting to go on a date with me. It was really confusing and hurtful but she delivered it in a way that I think she thought was going to soften the blow for me.

So, you’re saying that marketing is ruining this society.

File under “No Shit, Sherlock.”

lol. Yeah, Portland, OR. I guess I should’ve caught that there is no 295 here.

The major veins, I-5, 205 and 26 aren’t bad, in terms of how windy they are. But when you start driving in Portland and in the suburbs, they have a very confusing grid.

The downtown area is a pretty simple grid, for the most part, and easy to get around once you become familiar with the bus only lanes and where the…

Portland’s roads are a fucking nightmare.

Drones have massive potential in a lot of industries other than military, and it really sucks that, as with a lot of things (the Internet, etc.), the really great innovation is coming by the way of figuring out how blow people up or spy on them. The engineers can’t really tell people to “shut up” about this since it’s…

I didn’t say you were bad people. I’m saying that what you’re doing is bad.

Come on. You can’t seriously equate today’s advertising industry with a street merchant 200 years ago. The modern incarnation of the advertising industry came about from the propaganda machines of the world wars.

No one said they were the only ones, and my post makes that clear, obviously.

I love how being trained in advertising has made you use euphemisms in every day life, too. “Cult-like branding” becomes “the art of persuasion.” It’s no surprise your industry really got its start during WWII-time propaganda.