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oh no we taught the kids to share and now they're starving and the classroom has collapsed
by ertjaet 5y ago
oh no we taught the kids to share and now they're starving and the classroom has collapsed
- WalterBright 5y agoGood thing they weren't teaching the kids to grow food. Watch what happens when the kids have to work to acquire the goodies, instead of it just being handed to them.
- a_shovel 5y agoThis is how that argument usually goes. "This policy proposal might be helpful. Is it? Let's see: The policy is socialist in nature + socialism killed millions in authoritarian communist regimes = this policy will kill millions. Therefore we must not allow the policy to succeed." I can't imagine how they ignore the flaws. People do this, without exaggeration, unconditionally for every socialist policy.
- WalterBright 5y agoTeaching kids a failed philosophy just sets them up for failure as adults. There's an infinite universe of things to teach - why not teach them something useful, something that works? > Therefore we must not allow the policy to succeed Oh, but we do allow it to succeed. There are no laws against communes and worker collectives in the US. Any group can form one. And many have - thousands of them. They all failed on their own. You and your like-minded colleagues are welcome to give it a try. Nobody is going to try to stop you. You can ask Bernie to supply the funds (he's rich) and be your leader. I only ask that you come back in a year and tell us how it went.
- a_shovel 5y ago> Oh, but we do allow it to succeed. You allowed the minimum wage to be increased? You allowed us to require companies to give maternity leave? You allowed us to expand SNAP benefits? If so, it's news to me.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe US allows voluntary communism to do what it likes. You seem to want to do it by force. You can include me out of that.