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  • In the real world, your life depends on being accepted into that group or migrating to another place while having huge losses and problems due to it later on.

    Just because the punishment isn’t as strong doesn’t mean that the system functions differently. You are also going to run into issues where established communities may have issues moving.

    I’m not sure i agree because an admin can also be protested against and they can share ownership

    But that isn’t baked into Lemmy. That is a decision you made outside of Lemmy. Even then, is there a case where your instance could run without you? If not, you are still acting as an enlightened dictator.



  • Part of the reason why I’m arguing against economic terms is because it doesn’t really give context into the power dynamics in how an instance is run. At the core of most instances on Lemmy, a head admin dictates the rules of their instance and it is take it or leave it for everyone else that wants to participate.

    Think of it like this, if the head admin wanted to make a decision against all other admins and mods, what would happen? Likely, which has happened previously to other instances on Lemmy, the head admin wins out and everyone else either conforms or has to leave. Labor doesn’t become ownership.

    Unless an instance has a corporate structure which distributes power, it is an autocracy by definition.









  • Some instances let others work as mods, or even with some admin privileges. However, at the end of the day, each instance is beholden to the head admin unless they were set up differently. The only instance I can think of with an organizational structure beyond autocracy is beehaw.

    You’re also trying to insert economic descriptions to a political system without economics.




  • Three things.

    1. The economic transfers to MENA countries to detain migrants isn’t that large. In comparison, “promote human rights and rule of law” is an equivalent to nation building, which will require a much higher price tag.

    2. Do MENA countries even want it and will it turn out how we expect it? Lybia has devolved into two civil wars after the removal of Gaddafi. Egypt reversed its Arab Spring moment as the Muslim Brotherhood was writing a constitution to make Egypt a one party state. These countries may not want government level intervention.

    3. Part of the reason for EU expansion was to make less developed eastern countries more developed via trade. That process is still ongoing. I doubt these countries are going to want EU development funds to leave the union or for trade to shift to countries with far lower labor costs.


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    From what I’ve seen, especially since COVID, is that society has changed beyond their understanding and now a lot of things are strange and scary. Worse, a lot of the skills they should have learned to understand the present day weren’t learned for various reasons, so getting over the hump of understanding is now a lot higher than previous.

    Anger is a common reaction to fear and confusion.