starnold on Nostr: 🫵🏼 “Socialism works, we have just never implemented it well” We all heard ...

🫵🏼 “Socialism works, we have just never implemented it well”

We all heard the quote. But what If I told you that there is ONE place where socialism (or communism) actually did work? No, it’s not in Cuba or with the Soviets, or Pol Pot.

I’m talking about Social(ist) Media. Social Media. It worked online.

➖ you think you own something, but actually you don’t. Property rights don’t exist.
➖ you don’t earn anything, but are creating wealth for the boss/CEO. They get rich, you swipe for them.
➖ everything you do, is for the greater good (or: “the algorithm”). You’re feeding it every single day.
➖ you think you are in charge, but actually you are constantly surveilled and monitored.
➖ you have no freedom to say what you want, as the “thought police” is always there to censor you.

If you really look at it, social media is maybe the best implementation of socialism so far. Or maybe even communism — Lenin and Marx would be proud!

Luckily, there is a peaceful way out. We don’t have to fight, but we have to ignite a revolution with code. “Ideas are bulletproof, they cannot be killed.” Nostr is this peaceful way out!

With nostr “you own something”, “you earn something”, and “you are in charge”. It’s the antidote to Social(ist) Media. It’s Free(dom) Media. ✨

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~ Buckminster Fuller