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for socialism (which is the ethos of the statement) of course its a third party that determines your needs and any third party has a conflict

• butterNaN 4y ago
  It is not "of course" a third party at all. Socialism is not "when the government does stuff".
  • joenot443 4y ago
    In any real-world application of socialism I've seen, it is indeed the government deciding how much one is given. I can't think of any implementation where the government asks the citizen how large of a slice of the pie they'd like. I'm happy to be proved wrong, and maybe someday there'll be a successful communist state, but until then I look to history.
    • butterNaN 4y ago
      Right. I suppose I can't fault you to equate all of socialist ideas with what you have seen. There are socialists who are anti-state, for example. Check out Anarcho Communism, who very much use the "...according to their needs" ethos.
  • nathias 4y ago
    I'm all for blockchain socialism, but I doubt it will be called that ...