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> The problem is always going to be human nature. Or maybe human nature can be the greatest asset. If you teach them right. If they have better experiences in
by treadmill 3y ago
> The problem is always going to be human nature.
Or maybe human nature can be the greatest asset. If you teach them right. If they have better experiences in early life, without constant competition and stress put on them. If they don't grow up in a capitalist system. If kindness is the default response to your fellow human.
> You will only achieve communal ownership of property by force.
What makes you think that?
- TheMode 3y ago> If kindness is the default response to your fellow human. You cannot guarantee constant kindness, you will need to answer to violent responses as well, and be sure that it doesn't snowball.
- lockhouse 3y agoMost people will not willingly give up their property to the collective. Particularly those with a lot of property to lose. I don’t own a lot, but I know personally you would be met with armed resistance if you tried to take my property.
- thewildginger 3y agoIs your property usable by someone else, for something else, that it is better suited for? For most people no, not in a meaningful way. Socialists call property that is really only valuable to an individual personal property, whereas right now it's all just property, and no matter what it can be privately owned. Lots of people willingly give up property to a collective. Money is your property, and donating to charity is just that. Church collections basket? Collective. People willingly part ways with property for the collective all the time. People even more often contribute to what is a perceived collective but is an individual.
- _2z1p 3y agoNone of that scales up to nation level. It’s been tried and failed dozens of times. Leading to human suffering on calamitous scale. Socialist Utopia is as mythical as Shangri-La, El Dorado, or Atlantis.