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Well, I lived in nördlingen, germany (Yes, the attack on titan city or whatever anime it was) for most of my life and the first occurence in historical documents was in like 900 or something lol. However, the thing with the city is that it’s got a fully intact city wall to this day. If you drive a large car in there, you’re not going to have a very fun time in the city as you’ll find no parking spaces and you outright can’t access some parts of the city by car because the turns are too tight or the street simply not wide enough. I remember that like 25 years ago, they even had to create some wider lanes through rezoning so delivery trucks can even get to the shops to deliver the goods.

Man I’d love to see some american with his truck in the city. Absolute cinema.

Not in america I can assure you that.

That’s the nice part about living in old cities in europe. These things wouldn’t even find a parking space here lmao.

I don’t know why people still take IGN or other “gaming journalists” serious. They’ve proven years ago they are bought, will promote anything for enough money and most of them are neither gamers nor journalists. Just remember the dude from IGN or kotaku or whatever it was who needed like 10 minutes for the cuphead tutorial …

This here. Home automation is cool, but only as long as it works locally with something like home assistant.

is either staged or generated. No company that is serious about the field is going to show themselves as being slthat far behind their competitors.

Have you even thought about the fact that this is most likely not the company releasing it, but rather a smartphone video made by some random bystander? It could also be a fairly old video of an early prototype - if I remember right, spaceX has once released a video with a bunch of rocket launch fails for the funsies. Or hell, maybe it’s a school project of some engineering students. Nobody really knows the context.

Your claim of that video being AI has nothing to do with the video, but simply “other companies are further than this lol” which is honestly a pretty stupid standpoint. You should analyze the video itself for any hints of being AI generated.

Highly doubt it. The video looks too gritty to be AI. There’s a lot of janky zooms, camera movements etc, if this was AI, it would be incredibly impressive, and probably kinda scary aswell.

I know you probably did this for the meme but the fact that you can buy a hotdog in installments is kinda … yeah, idk. I’m lacking the vocabulary to describe my current state of mind.

Who says they’d need to?

We have a certain standard of living right now that is only maintainable that way.

we’d make glass and clay pots

Lmao.

people doing jobs for the money rather than less demand would actually mean people wouldn’t even need a set job

Yes, that’s how it generally works. Most jobs that people expect this day and age are not enjoyable. Are there people who’d do them for free? Yes. But not on a massive scale that works for billions of people.

Look at Animals, how many animals work 2 jobs just to survive?

What a retarded comparison. Probably the dumbest you could’ve made.

Animals don’t have access to a network of goods and services, they also don’t live in a city with potentially millions of inhabitants. They don’t have internet, they don’t have healthcare, they don’t have delivery drivers, plumbing, electricity or anything that we know from modern life.

With all due respect, but if that’s something you strife for, get a few like minded people and go live on an island. Nobody is stopping you. There, you can live free of capitalism. But you also get all the disadvantages.

It amazes me how blinded people are to a capitalist free world

We had a capitalist free world and it was shit for the most part. People got killed, life expectancy was shit, education was shit, extreme poverty was rampant (WAY more than under capitalism) winters were harsh and potentially deadly - bro you talk like someone who just played 12 hours of manor lords straight. You’re romanticizing a time that was just straightup terrible for the most part.

And if you’re referring to “modern” communist countries, ask yourself why so many people try to flee from them and why the regimes actually made leaving the country illegal.

Look at the waste now, the plastic pollution and then look carefully at the next package you buy and ask “does this really need ‘this’ much packaging? Do i care if this new spade I bought with all its shiny cardboard and plastic protection, arrived with a scratch? But even if the TV was scratched, does it really matter so long as it worked as intended?

You’re talking about minor individual problems. How is this a problem that warrants the abolishment of capitalism? Why not just fix that singular problem? You’re finding a small scratch in the wallpaper of your house and instead of just fixing it, you want to tear down the entire house? All of these things are SOCIETAL problems that are not the fault of capitalism. Capitalism doesn’t force companies to use excessive plastic for each cucumber - it’s the customers expectation that makes companies do that.

Okay, let me rephrase it: Not enough people enjoy working the middle of an australian desert at 40°C in a lithium mine to cover the global demand of rare earths.

Normal functioning societies don’t leave heaps of stinking trash around, they neatly pack it and the work of a janitor of garbage collector becomes actually enjoyable if you’re a proper type of personality.

Idk if you noticed, but people won’t behave that way if there is no repercussion for it.

He has his basic needs met by other means, and his “job” pays him enough to get a cup of coffee before the shift and a sandwich after. He just enjoys making the world cleaner, chatting with locals, taking care of stray cats, and having a routine.

Great but some people have more aspirations than your uncle. And I think they should have the chance to achieve that. And I don’t think having a clean neighborhood should depend on having that uncle that enjoys cleaning for free.

All of that is possible in a world that doesn’t revolves around squeesing every bit of labour from people

I mean, yes, absolutely possible without squeezing every bit of labor from people. However, it’s not possible in a world without money or capital. The wide-spread introduction of capitalism has DRASTICALLY reduced the amount of people living in extreme poverty. According to https://ourworldindata.org/end-progress-extreme-poverty , from 1990 - 2025, the amount of people living in extreme poverty dropped by 65%, from 2.3 billion to 800 million. If we extend the timeframe a bit further, according to https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-data-appendix , the number went from 53.9% in extreme poverty to only 5.5% - meaning an almost 90% reduction in extreme poverty. Unless I’m too stupid to do math now.

(ourworldindata.org is a non-profit funded by the university of oxford btw - so it’s fairly reliable)

Now, capitalism isn’t the sole reason why poverty dropped - it’s the combination with effective social policies. Capitalism creates wealth, taxes take a part of that wealth and spread it to the rest of society. That’s how it should work and that is also by far the best system we could ever have in place. The fact that america fails on that tax-part is not the fault of capitalism. It’s a failure of the government.

It’s insane that so many people tried to flee from communist terror regimes, and still try to flee to this day out of North Korea or Cuba, yet people on lemmy will just close their eyes and pretend that communism is the perfect system and every system that fails is just because of the “CIA”.

Like, half of the jobs you listed would be automated out pretty quick in a world without money

If that was even remotely possible, companies would’ve done that already. Every company tries to cut staff as much as possible.

pretty sure we can find something better for batteries than lithium

Which requires research, which requires investment. Much of the research we currently have only exists exactly because of funding, and a lot of funding is done by companies, not by the government.

What’s left can be rotated out or done by lottery, and those doing the undesirable labor get to have more luxury items or whatever

I like the “whatever”. Let’s just introduce a shitty system that also potentially forces people to do work they don’t want to do and they get like a bar of soap or “whatever” as reward…

It’s not hard to imagine, people have been doing it for centuries.

I don’t know where these people lived that you talk about, but it certainly wasn’t on this planet. Such a system has never existed.

If you removed money, imagine where we’d all be as a society

Probably dead or living in the stone age.

There’s so many jobs that people don’t enjoy but are necessary. Nobody enjoys working in the middle of an australian desert at 40°C in a lithium mine. Nobody enjoys collecting your stinking trash. Nobody enjoys sitting in a store for 8 hours a day, scanning groceries. Nobody enjoys working in a warehouse for 8 hours.

However, these jobs and many more are vital for todays society.

toxicity of money, wars and hate!

You make it sound like wealth and wars are an invention of capitalism and not something that has existed basically since the dawn of time, even as something you can observe in primates, albeit on a much smaller scale.

But there’s WAY more surviving devices from 1960 in 2020 than there will be from 2020 in 2080.

I don’t get it. Landlords don’t buy houses. They mostly buy apartment blocks. At least in central europe, where I’m located. It’s usually not lucrative enough to invest money into a house to rent it back out for like 1500€ - 2000€ a month when you can invest the same amount into an apartment block, have 10 apartments and make like 800€/apartment.

Also, in germany specifically, the problem isn’t landlords. It’s extremely restrictive and confusing building regulations that are extremely hard to fulfill. It also sometimes takes YEARS for buildings to even get approval. Well, and the prices for raw materials are currently through the roof aswell. No idea how it’s in other european countries tho.

Bro could at least invite her for dinner before making such … interesting demands.

Okay, I’m curious, how exactly do you think landlords affect your ability to buy a house?

Classic lefty talk, landlords are bad yada yada yada I guess.