OSMC makes some good Kodi boxes under the Vero name if you don’t need proprietary streaming services. I use the jellyfin plugin to read from my JF server, works great. Supports 4k, HDR, audio passthrough, many codecs, all the good stuff.

Between that and my PS5 it covers all the bases

I can understand that. I think we should try to work toward a more democratic workplace, although I don’t think any existing solution is something we can just apply in the USA. A good stepping stone would be to incentivize different ownership structures and improve the bureaucratic mechanisms for handling them. There’s a couple worker owned grocery chains in my city that are a great asset to the community (and have the best beer selection) and I’d love to see more support for people who want to make companies like that.

Obviously one would choose democratically elected politicians over unaccountable dictators and autocrats. What’s the saying, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others” or something along those lines.

Regarding workplace democracy, the idealized form of this in a capitalist framework would be having lots of competitive companies in every field. You would then be able to “vote” by taking your labor elsewhere if you don’t like what your employer is doing. Now, I of course understand that we don’t live in fantasyland, and for many sectors, that might not be possible. Many sectors have unique challenges that would need to be addressed with tailored legislation, but that’s beyond the scope of an internet comment.

For land, easy, land value tax. It effectively is an implementation of leasing land from the government and solves a lot of housing issues by encouraging development of high value parcels so you don’t end up with dozens of parking lots taking up 50% of your urban centers, and doesn’t regressively place burdens on the poor.

If we manage to get to a post scarcity society where we have a lot more people than labor to get done, then I would put my bet on UBI or negative tax rates being an effective way forward.

Democratically elected/accountable doesn’t necessarily beget quality. See: politicians.

Point is, people act like moving away from capitalism would suddenly fix all life’s ails. Sure, it would probably fix some stuff, it would probably cause some problems capitalism doesn’t too. It’s much more effective to focus on tackling specifically scoped issues rather than whinging about capitalism and proposing no solutions other than tearing down the entire system and hoping whatever rises from the ashes is better.

To make some very specific points, I believe that if we simply fixed outrageous housing and healthcare costs, the overwhelming majority of domestic complaints about the USA would be solved. No need to ditch capitalism to fix those problems.

I always find it funny when people use the phrase slippery slope, not realizing that it is literally a logical fallacy.

The far right can get bent for what it’s worth, but most of the issues people attribute to capitalism are very far from exclusive to capitalism. No matter what socioeconomic framework you go with, you’re probably still going to need to go to work, deal with shitty bosses, insane bureaucracies, mid life crises, not having the motivation to read that book you bought 3 years ago, your furnace dying in the middle of winter, etc.

Don’t forget about “every problem in existence is because of capitalism.”