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[–] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey that's not fair. If you say "Capitalism" you can also get plenty of attention!

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    [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Real communist discussion has never been tried.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    True communism looks cool on paper but just doesn’t deliver on execution

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's a great idea. I would definitely support it. The problem is that there's no magic impartial arbiter overseeing society and making sure that all things are genuinely distributed or accessible fairly to all.

    No matter what specific thing you put a person or group of people in charge of doing that with it gives them opportunity for corruption for personal gain. All economic ideologies have that same problem, humans are in charge of actually running them.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    "Linux... Gone wild!"

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (35 children)

    Communism relies too much on people being decent, hard working and intelligent so it'd never work out.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Here are 5 Stalin Bucks for your contribution to the discussion.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    That's just capitalism with state control

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (22 children)

    When you think communism is people being nice to each other.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    Is that why communist states have an authoritarian leader?

    To keep the commies in line?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    communist state is like triangular circle

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    There is no true communism present in the world.

    Calling something "communist" doesn't make it so.

    Hitler called his party "socialist". It was not.

    We call our country a democracy.

    It's an oligarchy.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    True capitalism hasn't been attempted either.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    We are living in capitalism.

    The world is capitalism.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    End stage capitalism.

    This is the result of the market "regulating itself".

    But I suppose if anti monopoly laws were actually enforced than capitalism wouldn't be this shitty. Still shitty though.

    However it's impossible for that to happen.

    When profits drive every choice of politicians and business owners, this result is inevitable.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    We aren’t even mid stage capitalism yet but with government regulations it’s not regulating itself obviously.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think government can ever keep it in check. Ultimately money will control politics and laws.

    I think this is probably an inevitability of any system unless incredibly strict laws and regulations are placed and can't be removed. Like with a constitution.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's so we can kill as many people as effectively as possible.

    Serious answer all revolutions limited to a single region or country collapse into reactionary autoritarianism because you can't build a post capitalist country surrounded by capitalist countries without experiencing some imperialism.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I agree with the cum fart (Seriously).

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Markets incentivize and reward selfish behavior. A different system would incentivize different behaviors.

    I swear, it's like we're stuck in the 20th century when it comes to this. Think about it like designing a multiplayer game. Throw a thousand people in a RUST server, they'll behave one way. Throw that same thousand into Deep Rock Galactic, they behave completely differently.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I feel like you are weirdly close to my view. Incentives matter.

    I'm not sure why you think that markets are inherently bad, though, or what incentive structure you think would be a better alternative.

    Personally, my view is that markets are a naturally occurring phenomenon in any sufficiently large and complex human society, and if we try to design a society without them, we will simply create bad outcomes, like the rise of a wealthy and powerful criminal class.

    My view is that, absent a better (and importantly, proven) structure, the best structure we have yet developed integrates markets into society in a pro-social manner. We allow legal markets, but create rules and guardrails to align incentives, so that the individual's work benefits both themselves and society as a whole.

    An analogy I like is that of a river. A completely unregulated river will ebb and flow, often help water your crops, and sometimes overflow its banks and flood your home. If you try to completely remove the river, it will not disappear - it will simply build up and overflow, causing greater floods, and depriving everyone of water. If you create a huge dam and completely control water flow, then the water will flow very consistently and you can avoid floods, but you will disrupt local water ecology, lose a lot of water to evaporation, and risk an enourmous calamity if the damn ever fails. A large dam might be the correct solution some of the time, but typically the best solution is to let the river flow mostly freely, while building small dams for water reservoirs and power generation and levees near population centers to protect against flooding. It is not just necessary but beneficial to let the river flow, but we must also protect society from its excesses.

    So, too, with markets. They are going to happen, and they provide a lot of benefits to a lot of people. But the people and the government must be protected from its excesses. We can allow people to build and own a taco truck or a cement factory or a software product and make money on it, but we can create protections, incentives, and regulations so they don't sell us toxic food, exploit workers, or buy elections and control politicians.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    I was using "markets" interchangeably with "capital". I do agree with what you, I don't think you can escape markets as a social phenomenon, and at the same time they (and the capitalists they work through) cannot be allowed to decide our political future. Our current setup is tantamount to ductaping the lever down on a lawnmower, and declaring that the "wisdom of the engine" knows what needs trimming.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Pay attention to me comrade senpai

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    " mccarthyism"

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I am super into communism, but some of the memes about it here are so low quality

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Cumminist. Everyome's cum belongs to everyone.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's definitely weird. I wasn't expecting "Welcome to Lemmy!... don't mind them, that's just our cult."

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I guess we're not supposed to mention the cults, or the cult members get angry.

    It's so weird here, if you accidentally wander into a post from the wrong instance you can make a completely non offensive comment and have 30 people shrieking at you that you're hateful and evil and should die.

    Pointing out the irony in acting that way to a random stranger on the internet never helps.

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