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  • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldtoCool Guides@lemmy.caScrews
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    7 months ago

    Just wait until you have to remove some old slotted screws! Phillips are great compared to them. My house was build in 1925, I think slotted was the only option back in those days…

    Found this on Wikipedia “The credited inventor of the Phillips screw was John P. Thompson who, in 1932, patented (#1,908,080) a recessed cruciform screw and in 1933, a screwdriver for it.”











  • Don’t feel sorry, thanks for the wall of text. I also watched some videos on communism and socialism, from what I understand we never really had communism only socialism, but socialism could lead to communism.

    But from what I also understand is that all socialism counties had massive problems with corruption and authoritarianism. So I’m not really convinced that communism could ever work. But thanks for the reply anyway!


  • OK so what’s the alternative? Communism?

    Like hosest question, how would that work?

    Redistributing the wealth sounds easy when we talk about billionaires. But what about people like me that make an above average salary because we also put in the effort, like a degree, learning new skills outside work to get better at work, etc.

    I have friends that never cared about money and basically did the absolute minimum at work, so part of my savings should go to them? That also does not sound fair.

    And what about leadership? Is the leader a dictator because that’s a hard no for me. Do we still use the democratic system? Because we already have an issue with idiots voting for populist parties. If we all “share” the wealth that is going to get much worse. Don’t let those brown people in they will steal all our shared wealth (offcourse that’s not even true, but people will vote like this anyway). People voted for brexit because they all believed a buch of lies, it’s unfortunately too easy to manipulate people.

    Is there even a real example of communism where it worked for a long time, without leaders getting corrupt or production and GDP going down?

    To me the more European version of capitalism sounds like the best system we have so far. If you have a system with good free education (giving people equal opportunities), strong consumer and environmental protection, plus strong workforce protections, high minimum wage, etc.