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These studies seem to crop up now and again. What's funny is that we have devised this completely contrived way of divvying up the world's resources, including
by unclebucknasty 11y ago
These studies seem to crop up now and again.
What's funny is that we have devised this completely contrived way of divvying up the world's resources, including this notion of private ownership over key natural resources. But, in truth, no one needs to go hungry, without shelter, water, etc. There is enough.
But, then, we step back and say, "what if we give these people, who currently cannot subsist under this scheme, some marginal share of the resources we've convinced them by fiat are someone else's to give them in the first place?"
Then, of course, we measure their outcomes within the context of the same scheme, and ponder other ways to help them.
Yet, the scheme itself is much more seldom questioned. That one person can earn bilions from what's pulled from the earth we all inhabit, while others die from lack of access to the same should be expected to create irreparable distortions in outcomes. But, it's somehow accepted as an unchangeable, almost natural premise, even as we search for solutions.
- hugh4 11y agoI've always been confused as to how a forum for entrepreneurs wound up with so many honest-to-fuck communists.
- unclebucknasty 11y agoSome people engage themselves in critical thinking, and thus discover some creative alternatives between the extremes of outright communism and an unfettered capitalism that routinely produces soul-crushing poverty.
- CuriousSkeptic 11y agoI'm confused by why criticism of or current ownership model must be bundled up as communism. How about geo-libertarianism? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
- unclebucknasty 11y agoWell said. Slightly off-topic, but I am reminded of a certain personality type [1] that has an almost reflexive reaction to any questioning of the status quo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarianism
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThe bold text up there at the top of the page says "Hacker News." Hackers, in general, are not known for embracing establishment politics. I've always been confused as to why some people can't see any possible middle ground between fuck-the-poor Randianism and burn-the-rich Stalinism.
- wycx 11y agoProbably because the definition of communism you carry around in your head is inaccurate.