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I find it kind of amusing because I tend to use sexual attraction as an example for when communism will fail - because it is unrealistic to assign everybody a m
by kkjjkgjjgg 5y ago
I find it kind of amusing because I tend to use sexual attraction as an example for when communism will fail - because it is unrealistic to assign everybody a mate of equal attractiveness. You can give everybody the same shitty house and roughly the same shitty job, but unless you clone people, they will not be equally attractive.
Amusing, because the communists actually thought of it, and come up with this solution: that everybody should just be willingly give sex to everybody (or another variant, that everybody should just considered to be equally attractive).
For example here in Germany there was the famous "Kommune 1" in the 60ies, and they had the mantra "Wer zweimal mit derselben pennt, gehört schon zum Establishment" - meaning if you have sex with the same woman twice, you are already the enemy.
I don't think that is the "freeing of women" that its proponents claim it is. Quite the opposite, it is the ultimate "utilization" of women who lose the rights over their bodies.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoAmusing concept, isn't it? Sex and reproduction as resources. Inevitably the issue of fair redistribution comes up. I saw articles talking about this posted on HN once: https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.html https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/two-types-of-envy.htm... https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-redistribution.html https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/06/comparing-income-sex-... Capitalism doesn't escape this either. The notion that you'll find a good wife if you work hard and become successful is ingrained into men since early childhood. It's magical thinking, of course. No such guarantee exists.