• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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          13 hours ago

          Is it though? Is it fine for the majority of people in the world that there are a few countries that extract wealth from elsewhere so that their citizens can have a better life?

        • Leviathan@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          The more capitalism is limited, the better it is to live in those places. Unless of course the country is owned or populated by oligarchs, because their slaves probably don’t tip the scales on the data that gets published.

    • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      It’s certainly cheaper to bribe a handful of representatives than it is to bombard the entire population with propaganda.

      Although it’s wishful thinking to suggest they won’t go back to that to get what they want.

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        2 days ago

        Although it’s wishful thinking to suggest they won’t go back to that to get what they want.

        Let’s hope that the oligarchs that own the news we watch, the newspapers we read, and the streaming service we consume, stay kind and don’t start using those platforms for spreading propaganda! Man I’d be so upset if it turns out that all this time I’ve been watching and reading propaganda and taking it as fact and basing my opinions on it.

      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        With “AI” and all these new mega scale data centers popping up, they’ll be able to do both at the same time for half the price!