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> You think you've got a design for a social system that would lift more people out of poverty while harming the environment less? I'm all ears. If you’re actu
by TaylorAlexander 7y ago
> You think you've got a design for a social system that would lift more people out of poverty while harming the environment less? I'm all ears.
If you’re actually serious, look up Communalism or Murray Bookchin. There are in fact real and detailed ideas about alternatives that would still lift people out of poverty without a wealthy class extracting wealth from those places and people.
- darawk 7y agoOk. I looked this up a bit, it seems to essentially be a variant of anarcho-syndicalism. The essential conceit of which appears to be "we're going to do centralized planning, but local, so it'll be good instead of bad". It's unclear to me why this would substantially resolve any of the serious criticisms of central planning (calculation problem, local knowledge problem, etc.)