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If we had enough in the 50s, then if we took a hit on GDP now when we have more productivity than the 50s, then we can take care of everyone.
by tehjoker 3y ago
If we had enough in the 50s, then if we took a hit on GDP now when we have more productivity than the 50s, then we can take care of everyone.
- m4nu3l 3y ago> If we had enough in the 50s By what standard? In the 50s a lot of things didn't even exist. > then if we took a hit on GDP now when we have more productivity than the 50s, then we can take care of everyone. If the hit is closer to 100% than to 0% then no. Examples: The USSR, Maoist China, North Korea.
- tehjoker 3y agoFood, shelter, education, etc. Those things existed in the 1950s, we have nicer versions now unevenly distributed. I guess you're just an ideological anti-communist.
- m4nu3l 3y agoOf course I'm an ideological anti-communist. I prefer not starving to death like in the great famine - which happened in the 50s-60s in a society that applied the principles you are proposing.