this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
1452 points (99.6% liked)
Technology
79763 readers
3458 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I can’t figure out what this comment is supposed to mean
I'm guessing some variation on "capitalism bad".
So, entirely fair.
Because we all know there are no businesses in socialism.
I guess the anarchists are all planning to grow their own vegetables, then? In... the middle of NYC...
we used to do that fine before the conception of the word "corporation"
Well things aren't gonna magically go back to the way things were just because someone makes all the businesses shut down. There was always commerce, even before corporations and capitalism. Thinking there was ever a time when everyone grew their own food is false.
Hence the comment chain where we're ragging on a commenter saying to shut down all the businesses with no foresight into what would result. Some random dude running a bodega is not a capitalist oligarch.
I suppose this is a convenient go to to keep the status quo for people who speak about doing good things but don't want to rock the boat. When change through peaceful means becomes impossible then non-peaceful events start to take place, and there won't be any order compared to planned and coordinated transition away from the awful systems in place. Would you like to live through that instead?
Also some random dude running a bodega is not an oligarchy but nobody said it was. Oligarchies exist and their destruction is necessary for actually competitive free markets so the random dude with a bodega is not driven out of business in the first place.
Being anti-capitalist is entirely fair, but I think being opposed to all businesses is a less justifiable position to hold.
It's a joke because AI tells people to kill themselves, so presumably an AI talking to businesses will talk them into shutting themselves down.
And as Mamdani is a socialist, he presumably wants private businesses to shutdown (and be replaced by cooperatives)