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Unfortunately communism is horrible for individual privacy, liberty, and often life everywhere it's been tried, because humans suck.
by inpdx 5y ago
Unfortunately communism is horrible for individual privacy, liberty, and often life everywhere it's been tried, because humans suck.
- _jal 5y agoI seriously doubt governments emerging from ecological collapse will be as pleasant as one of the 20th century eastern-euro communist governments you're probably thinking of. Surveillance today is already more all-encompassing in democracies than it was in Eastern Germany. Just wait for an emergency that scares people enough, and that becomes weaponized. Individual rights don't last in emergencies.
- wayoutthere 5y agoIf you think communism is bad, wait until you see long-term deflation under capitalism.
- l-_l-_l-_lo_ol 5y agoYeah. It just doesn't cohere with human nature. Capitalism at least manages. Communism seems like something that would happen maybe post-singularity and after scarcity is solved. And we'd be like homogenous spacefarers like the aliens depicted in our stories.