poVoq

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  • The problem is cost and time. Its all fine and dandy to say we just need to make it modular, but the required R&D for that will take many years and then you need to build up production capacity and actually install them.

    If this were the 1990ties, I would agree, but it isn’t, so let’s please be realistic and focus on what can be done now, which isn’t modular nuclear reactors.

    All you achieve by focussing on nuclear is letting the coal plants run at least a decade longer, while we do have better and cheaper alternatives right now that just need to be installed.




  • Could you give some examples? I assume you mean the base building computer game genre?

    I am a bit hesitant as it could easily become mainly advertisement for specific games and also this genre often has strong colonial undertones.

    But maybe let’s just see? If it is something you enjoy and would like to share with other members here, then I see no general issue. Just keep the two above points in mind when posting please 😊









  • While I agree that the OP is very selective in what they post, I don’t quite agree that this institute is a misinformation source.

    After researching them a bit now, they seem to be a relatively independent source funded by a German billionaire family that got rich with a grocery chain.

    They seems to be relatively progressive and have an explicit pro Muslim integration stance which seems to have resulted in this institute publishing about the discrimination of Uyghurs in China, which drew the negative attention of the Chinese government.




  • They backtracked a bit in their later replies, but the original question is exactly the type of contrived theoretical scenario that when you try to also answer it theoretically there is an endless amounts of “gotchas”.

    Discussing anarchy theoretically online is IMHO a bit pointless anyways, as there is no agreed canon and every scenario will be always highly context specific.

    People will either come to agree with anarchism because they agree with the basic principles (which do not need convincing in arguments) or because they see it working in praxis…





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    the only people that traditionally uproot themselves to leave and intentionally join a community would be monastics.

    This is not supported by the historical record, people in the past have been much more mobile than you think.

    Living somewhere just because you grew up there is not some byproduct of capitalism, it’s what humans do.

    And it is secondary to the economic conditions. If you live all your life under alienating economic conditions then you have little shared purpose left and there is no such thing as communities where you live.


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    And? Look at the economic structures on these islands. They are in no way sustainable and largely depend on outside inputs like tourism or agri-industrial projects that only survive because of EU regulatory protection and outside investors that prey on that. There is very little shared purpose left there.



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    It is true that children don’t necessarily take on the convictions of their parents, but communities are build around structures of common purpose (and not primarily family bonds). What you seem to have in mind is a typical modern suburb with no shared purpose, which is pretty much the opposite of what anarchists think of as communities.