I bought a factory refurbish HP Dev One. It’s basically the only laptop designed for Linux made by a big company (i guess it was a project between HP and system76.)

It doesn’t have a windows key, because it was specifically made for Linux, the hardware choices were made based on stability of Linux hardware drivers, etc.

They put windows 11 on it. WTF?

It doesn’t have a bios key for windows, because it isn’t a windows laptop. So someone spent extra money on a digital license for windows home to put on a laptop designed specifically to not have windows on it.

What the shit? I was gonna wipe it for security anyway, but… it’s just baffling.

I think it’s important to remember three things when you come across people online trying to argue against anarchists ideas with economics.

First, that economics does not describe the world as it is. It describes a hypothetical world of infinite land and infinite resources, with limited corruption and basically no propaganda effect. These people have essentially spent their lives learning all the nuance of D&D rules, and it’s important to remember that it really doesn’t matter how much money a +1 enchantment costs, because it isn’t real.

Second, anything they say about economics and how they think the world works is 100% irrelevant to a discussion of how the world *should* work. The current motivations for a rich person to open a factory are irrelevant to a discussion of a just society. The current arrangement of housing is irrelevant when discussing how a just world would function. The current arrangement of farming is irrelevant to How food should be grown and distributed. Every argument they make about the current world is simply saying “it can’t be any other way because that isn’t how it works now” which is a bit if an ought-is problem

The economists i know in my personal lives are some of the most ignorant, sheltered people I’ve ever met. They know fucking everything about economic theory and basically nothing about anything else in the world.

Lastly, the world is not infinite. Both current neoliberal economics and Marxist theory generally fail to take into account that we are running out of resources quickly. We reach earth overshoot 60% of the way through the year, we’re eating into our global resource savings in a major way, and we’re going to be globally bankrupt of most resources very soon. All their theory doesn’t matter because the current world is completely and utterly fucked, capitalism is fucked, consumerism is fucked, And most likely 80% of the people alive are fucked. If we don’t suddenly pull space resource extraction out of our assess in the next 15 years everything will collapse, and there’s basically zero chance of that happening.

The world as we know it is actually ending pretty soon, one way or another, and there’s just no point in arguing with the priests of the capitalist death cult when they clearly got it wrong already.

The city decided that my daily driver, parked in my parking spot behind my house, must be abandoned because it’s ugly.

So they sent a notice to a place i don’t live to tell me to remove my car from my property, because they deem my ugly car to be a public nuisance.

When i didn’t respond to the notice i never received they decided to file criminal charges for violating a code i didn’t violate, because my car is ugly.

This is all apparently my fault.

It isn’t even that bad, it’s just got a bad clear coat! The paint isn’t even peeling you fuckers!

Hooray.

Ok, i need help.

Is this a joke? Is this person making a joke about how some idiots will happily tolerate fascists, racists, and even genocide, as long as whoever is doing it is polite and well spoken?

Are they picking the guy from the movie who killed half of everyone alive to pick on for being rude to make the point that obsessing about tone policing is a useless waste of time for idiots, that completely removes the ability to focus on actual existential problems, and only ever acts to reinforce the status quo as “good and deserving of respect”?

Or do they just have burn toast where their brains should be?

This is either incredibly clever or the worst thing I’ve seen all week, and i just honestly can’t tell.