The most funny thing about this is when Google AI will pick this as the true answer to the creation of Dune

On the other hand, without the invention of lenses we wouldn’t have most of our science and technology. No microscope, no telescope, no microchips, no precision engineering. So many things today are possible only because we could enhance our shitty vision with lenses

Not at all what I’ve said. I just want people here to have an honest conversation rather than circlejerking each other. But circlejerking it is I guess

Indeed

What’s the conversation then? If you can’t discuss alternative systems, what’s the point? Circlejerk? How fun

Ok, then you are equally ok with this, I guess:

Regardless, that has nothing to do with the comic OP posted. Are there, in real-world communist/feudal societies, people that get more on the shoulders of other people’s work? If the answer is yes, then the comic does not specifically represent a capitalist society.

Because this is what the comic represents. It does not represent the welfare system, or lack thereof. It does not show any means of production. It just shows some person getting wealth on the shoulders of another person’s work. That’s it.

Yeah, thankfully I said real-world communism. Utopian communism would indeed be great.

In feudal society, the noble owns the serfs. The serf cannot move without the noble’s consent and is tied to the land in such a manner that, if the noble decides to sell the land, the serf on the land are sold too. They have to work the lands of the noble before their own and have to pay a tax on what they own to the noble. While they own some small tools, like pots, needles, tools for churning butter and other small farming tools, the biggest tools were often owned by the village as they were too expensive for the single farmer. Some other tools were instead illegal to own, a famous example was the grinding stone, which was illegal to own, since you HAD to go to the noble’s mill to transform your wheat into flour and then bread. This was because you then had to pay a tax to the miller and a tax to the noble in order to mill your wheat.

So, in essence, in feudalism a serf did not own their land, did not own their labor and was not even free to move. So much better, right? /s

Eh, in feudalism too, if you were the son of a noble, you’d get the estate. And in real-world communism too, if you were the child of a high ranking official, you’d get into positions of power and know influential people. Even this is not specifically tied to capitalism.

Capitalism is the fact that you can buy and sell the tree and the fruits freely. In feudalism, you couldn’t do this, not really at least, the land belonged to the noble, and you owed them your life and your work. In some cases, it was more akin to slavery than anything else. And in communism you couldn’t do this either, the land and the produce was of the state, and the powerful officials decide how to allocate them.

And I’m not even saying that capitalism is in any way good, just that “powerful people at the top” is not in any way specific to this or that economic system.

Eh, feudalism too. And real-world communism. And pretty much any society that ever existed on this pale blue dot in space. There are always some in power that live in wealth, and then the rest that live in poverty and get fucked, it’s not a feature specifically of capitalism.

Wait, how old is that? Because on Wikipedia it suggests that Xerox has been working on this at least since the 80s, and while it was only discovered in 2004, apparently everyone had been using these kinds of patterns for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

I’m pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn’t have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

I think the issue is mostly in the visuals. When you look for traditional English food, it is usually a plate full of beige stuff, sometimes paired with really unappetizing boiled carrots and beans. The gravy being on the side instead of part of the dish doesn’t do it any favors either.

Also I’d argue England has pretty low standards for what counts as “food”. I’ve had to work in England for a month, and finding something fresh, healthy and tasty to eat was a real challenge. I’ve never been as fat as when I came home.

The epitome of the wasted potential of English cuisine is the fact that it’s an island full of the best fishes in the world, yet the only fish you can find is battered cod. Why is it so hard to get a salmon fillet? You have Scottish salmon ffs!

Generally speaking what follows a violent revolution is usually a few decades of war, poverty and tyranny.

It’s quite unlikely that you’ll be better off in the 2-3 following decades than when you started. After that, it’s anyone’s guess. You might be better off or worse off, depending on the ability of the new government

It’s still mostly one per day per channel, more or less. It’s just that they have many channels