Zompist Bboard Again

Now, and that's where I depart from the consensual view, I have called for harsher measures and jail terms (though I'd save these for the real, real nasty shit like 'Auschwitz' T-shirts or holocaust denial). That's because I feel a very idealistic view of free speech has been tested and reality has...

I largely agree with the paradox of tolerance. A society that tolerates intolerance cannot in the long term stay tolerant. It is a careful and dangerous task to censor only some people, but it is already in effect. Nuclear secrets, yelling "fire!" in a crowded theatre and making death thre...

All these arguments may sound theoretical until one has skin in the game. I think it is a bad idea for mèþru to call for canceling Nazis because he has argued in favor of incest and IIRC even ephebophilia in the past. If canceling is generally accepted and the Nazis find out about this, I doubt the...

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I suggest people who want to maintain contact with me long-term reach out on discord or at least my twitter or tumblr, because I'm really not sure the board's changed enough for me to want to stay here. I'll be taking an indefinite break now.

I somehow copied zompist when trying to log in instead of my own username just now

Relevant is that a lot of my opinion about unions comes from my parents - who lived in Israel during a time when a single union planned more than half the economy. Even my father, who is pretty lefty, has a bunch of bad things to say about unions.

I generally reread fiction only when really bored but still very awake.

That's pretty much the idea wrote about here: I suppose it can be done that workers representation is simultaneously done within the business through internal elections AND by unions working without being part of the company, with internal worker's rep and their pay being payed for by the company in...

I generally only use phpBB search if I can't find something via Google.

I saw a poll for the scenario where Ehud Barak is in charge of Havoda again. I pray he doesn't actually run in the primaries. I agree with him on a lot of things, but he is electoral poison to everything he touches and may or may not have child rape accusations against him (I don't know if Dershowit...

It's not possible to actually give the same living standards even if there were the same wages and labour conditions because first the economy needs to grow and infrastructure to develop to get all the amenities of life available in the West. I think that if there were stronger labour laws and safet...

I'll go even further and say that the complaints against capital flight in the richest countries of the world are a form of latent xenophobia and an example of lack of solidarity with third world countries, putting the interests of first-world workers ahead of the rest of the world.

I don't see capital flight as a bad thing. It empirically has raised living standards and wages in the third world. The problem is a lack of social safety net from those who lose as a result. I believe at-will employment is wrong. I do believe in the right to work without joining a union, but I usua...

I very much disagree with compulsory voting and compulsory union membership, compulsory union dues of non-members or only allowing one union in a single workspace. That violates the right of consenting adults to freely associate. Also, many times an employee would then be forced to pay for political...

I've talked at length with various people on systems ranging from computer-managed global anarchist networks to Bordigists to democratic socialists on what they think should happen in step 2. I've seen a lot of fleshed out proposals but ultimately all the systems that reject markets reject growth ou...

In my world there's a sapient species of amphibious cephalopods that can limitedly change shape and can at will change colour. I'm a bit stumped though on how psychology and social structures can work when any adult can flawlessly mimic any other uninjured adult. Ideas?

There's been another new party announced in Israel, and the Yamina electoral alliance is splitting. Aryeh Deri is being charged with tax evasion. Bibi is trying to claim he has sole authority over Iran policy and is trying to shut Gantz out of decision making in that area. He claims now that only th...

I think that big companies are a necessity of the modern world due to their ability to make things cheaper by economies of scale, and because some products are only found in some select areas that need global and cheap redistribution (such as rare metals used in computers). The question is how big c...

I actually have pretty similar ideas to Rounin, albeit trade of control of the company is just heavily restricted instead of not allowed and the bonds are dividend paying, they just don't confer shareholder status like normal stock does (which makes them not the same as non-voting stock, which still...

This birthday is even worse than the one I tried to commit suicide during.