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Communism has never worked because the people in power who decide exactly how to divide the wealth fairly are humans and humans are greedy, selfish assholes. W
by monkeynotes 5y ago
Communism has never worked because the people in power who decide exactly how to divide the wealth fairly are humans and humans are greedy, selfish assholes.
Who evaluates your land value?
Also, if we all do what we want to do who is gonna pick up the garbage, who is going to slaughter cows for your burger that no one wants to flip?
I mean, these are the easy things I can think of.
Additionally any of the welfare states and experiments with UI are with small scale countries who have simpler socio-economic makeups. Try doing what you are prescribing in America where Trump, Bezos, and any number of psycho CEOs and politicians are doing very well for themselves. Not to mention the fundamental myth of America is bootstrap to individual prosperity.
Edit: to expand on "doing what you want", what if what you want to do is build a huge multi national corp and accumulate stinking piles of cash and yachts? What are you going to say to all those folks?
- JSavageOne 5y agoWho said anything about communism? UBI is just capitalism with an income floor. People can still work jobs for money and start businesses.
- monkeynotes 5y ago> and the proceeds would be distributed uniformly to the population as a citizen's dividend. Sounds like a form of communism to me.