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  • Carmakazi@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world...
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    9 days ago

    It’s framed as “vaccine bad” even if it wasn’t outright stated. Or at the very least that Da Gubment is inherently reckless, irresponsible, and clueless in handling vaccines…just like they believe with every other government function.

    When one of the points on an official report is

    but what about muh natural immunity, I dun need no damn shot!

    You know where they’re coming from. And when they’ve chosen “there is no such thing as a safe and effective vaccine” RFK Jr. to lead our public health, you know where they’re going.


  • Bartering also assumes, for your example, that the apple farmer wants oranges and the orange farmer wants apples. Consider that either one may not. And then consider how many other goods exist even in primitive agrarian society that people may or may not want at any given time.

    Currency is whatever the agreed vehicle is for value exchange that solves this. The apple farmer can now sell apples for silver nuggets and use the silver to buy tools from someone else later, which the orange farmer either doesn’t have or is unwilling to part with. It allows for more complex transactions that then helped grow more complex societies.










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    Basically none on the part of the handlers. Often this arrangement is handled by a private firm that doesn’t necessarily have to be Russian or Chinese, I have heard of one operating in Australia. The posters themselves are spending a lot of time, but they’re the ones selling it.

    Money

    Again, they’re not exactly paying these guys a living wage, and even if they were, it’s peanut crumbs for state-level actors.

    Effort

    A lot of people say that Lemmy is not worth the effort to demoralize because it’s too small, I say the effort is too small to not be worth the investment. I would even say that Lemmy users are self-selected for radicalization in some ways, broadly speaking they are fed up with corporate social media and corporatism in general.

    It’s also a somewhat important step to have a place they can speak unfiltered amongst themselves, no matter how small the clubhouse is. That’s where the real funky shit happens.