John

Yep, good point! I was trying to think of examples. Ace Hardware isn’t a workers coop either.

the FBI would make sure they fail.

This is kind of the point. If any of these things remotely threatened the capitalist status quo, they would be obliterated by the CIA, etc.

I think you already read the reason/s but in a monopoly capitalist society, but companies can just smother smaller ones by leveraging their exploited workforce (more output for less cost), out-competing, buying up all competition, much better economies of scale, and access to capital and market forces.

Just take an example of a small business owner who sells sporting goods (I use this example because I love Freak and Geeks lol). How can you possibly compete with Walmart when Walmart has bigger and better inventory, cheaper prices, more locations, basically no competitors, better advertising, etc? Sure lots of people value ‘small businesses’ from a moral/ethical point of view, but enough for this company to grow and grow and grow and compete with friggin Walmart? That just doesn’t happen often.

Now, something like REI, which is a coop, does compete with Walmart in a very niche market. REI has a strong brand and loyal customer base, allowing it to compete effectively in the outdoor and sporting goods sector. However, its focus is more on quality and specialized products rather than mass-market items. Do you think Walmart couldn’t just destroy REI if it felt like it was being threatened and it wasn’t one of the largest mcap companies on the planet?

Because they cannot compete with the economies of scale, the availability of capital, market power, an exploitable workforce, etc.

It’s like asking why you can’t win at checkers when your opponent is cheating at 4d chess.

Read: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin

Do find it interesting that every anti-capitalist society was achieved through revolution? Not by voting or incremental changes, but by ugly, violent, revolution?

By all means go and create some coops! I became a member of a local food coop. But I am under no delusion that this impacts capitalism whatsoever.

Capitalists aren’t going to just let the system slowly change. The mass murder campaigns waged by the CIA have taught us that (read The Jakarta Method).

Employee owned businesses are the realization of communism within a capitalist society.

Right, but we want the whole system changed. Coops are inherently at a disadvantage in monopoly capitalism.

I will continue to fight, annoy, and agitate the capitalist status quo. Majority of Americans do not agree with current politics, our current “leader”, or oligarchs controlling everything.

I looked for a reasonable Linux laptop for my wife and either it was European (large shipping costs) or ridiculously marked up.

She just went with a windows laptop 🤷‍♀️

Proton has cooperated with subpoenas on multiple occasions leading to the user’s arrest.

My thinking is, if the CIA (or whatever country’s equivalent) is on to you, it’s pretty much jover.

I use Proton currently since it comes with my proton subscription. But I used mullvad for years and prefer it. They’re both good, you can’t go wrong really.

Let’s just say that voting and strongly worded tweets never worked.

Every socialist country had a revolution.

I like Debian + flatpaks. 🤷‍♀️

I like the philosophy behind Debian. It’s not a corpo distro

I’m just blocking you now. You’re just trolling

Talking about logical fallacies while summarily hand-waving away all of crypto is pretty interesting.

I guess some random HN user is smarter than the research arms of these companies who are all building on and utilizing crypto: https://ethereumadoption.com/

😂

Edit: stablecoins have already reached parity with traditional payment networks

And yea, like the other user said, just don’t use it! Nobody will be mad that you don’t use it, or care. I don’t have venmo, so I don’t use it. I don’t get mad when somebody offers it. 🤷‍♀️

Wait until you learn about tradfi

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/20/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians

EDIT: to answer slightly more seriously, crypto is just a tool. The great thing about crypto is that anybody can use it. The bad thing about crypto is that anybody can use it. Yes, there’s lots of dogshit out there (by lots I mean like 95% or more). But the big projects, BTC, ETH, defi stuff like AAVE, Compound, etc are very useful tools. I don’t think people realize how exploitative the banking and finance industry really are, and crypto bypasses most of that.

The entire premise of this post is that people are supposedly bricking their systems, and atomic distros fix this.

My argument is that nobody is bricking their system. I will repeat it, because that’s the assumption made by op to argue in favor of atomic distros.

You are free to disagree, but at this point you are just arguing to argue.

I’m quoting the OP. His argument is that atomic distros are the future because people are out there bricking their systems.

updates that either work 100% or roll back automatically, no more “oops I bricked my system” moments

I love flatpak lol. something like debian + flatpak is win-win imo

I’m curious what you’re doing to your system that bricks it so often that would be considered a risk for a normal every-day normie user?

oops I bricked my system

I honestly can’t think of a single time I’ve done this in the 20 years I’ve been using linux.

what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro

I dunno, it just seems like the latest fad. Debian/Arch work just fine.