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> Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name. As someone who was born in USSR I can
by caskstrength 3y ago
> Rent-seeking is a cancer, it has to be abolished. There is an alternative to all of that, but you won't like its name.
As someone who was born in USSR I can venture a guess that OP won't also like its implementation.
- derelicta 3y agoAs someone whose (some) relatives were born in the old Yugoslavian Republic, they miss its implementation.
- caskstrength 3y agoSo why they are not voting to get it back? It is not like all kinds of Communist/Socialist parties are outlawed in either exUSSR or ex-Ugoslavian countries, it is just that some old people like to reminisce about it but nobody _actually_ wants it back.
- derelicta 3y agoYou can't vote yourself out of capitalism the same way you can't vote yourself out of slavery.
- caskstrength 3y agoSays who? Sure you can! After failed coup attempts Venezuela did exactly that in 1998[0]. But I guess they were no true Scotsman, right? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Venezuelan_presidential_e...
- derelicta 3y agoSometimes miracles happen :)
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoFor a certain generation of Yugoslavs, it isn’t just the party that matters but the specific man who led it, Tito. Once he died, even though his party remained, things quickly went downhill for Yugoslavia.
- rcpt 3y agoI thought he was talking about land value tax
- HDThoreaun 3y agoWho doesn't like land value tax? "Won't like it's name" pretty much has to be communism/socialism imo
- rcpt 3y agoPretty much every land owner
- midasuni 3y agoI fail to see the similarity between a land value tax and communism