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> > Communism is one of the worst ideas Communism is the idea that in order to be successful you have to kiss asses at the location where you want to eventuall
by JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
> > Communism is one of the worst ideas
Communism is the idea that in order to be successful you have to kiss asses at the location where you want to eventually become someone, for example a government agency or a political party.
Capitalism is the idea that in order to be successful you should be able to kiss asses wherever and however you can and be able to move the provents from the aforementioned ass kissing at some other place (in the form of money) so you don't have to start all over. So you can make some ass kissing arbitrage in order to minimize the amount of ass kissing that you do.
I prefer the latter because I don't like to be constrained in one place and might have a bit of commit-o-phobia but it's not a stretch to think that people who like to put the work day-in and day-out in the same place, see familiar faces everyday and don't have commit-o-phobia might prefer the former.
In the end it's all about kissing asses and there are very minor differences. Long gone are the days of low hanging fruits where you could singlehandedly invent the wheel or fire, now every minor marginal improvement in anything requires some serious ass kissing and given that it's a practice that nobody likes you see emerge these big ideological battles between factions who say:
"There would be more stuff and less need for ass kissing in a libertarian free market haven"
and those who reply :
"In a proper commune the need for ass kissing would be at an all time low and the stuff would be at an all time high"
Reality is nobody knows if the wheel or fire were invented in a commune or libertarian haven because it was something so self-evident and straightforward that these sort of mega ideological battles were a non-factor.
- naveen99 3y ago> ass kissing arbitrage ROFL. Minus the last paragraph. Remember primes are infinite. Improvements are infinite, the slow down is only to log speed, still plenty fast.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago> > Improvements are infinite, the slow down is only to log speed Yeah but the brain gets more excited going from 0 to 10mph on a self built skateboard than from mach1 to mach2 on the Concorde, because you are in the exciting part of the S-curve. Also because skateboard you singlehandedly crafted and it's yours, Concorde you need a million people give or take to build and billions of man hours and you get to rent 1/160th of it for about 3 hours. And those 3 hours cost some serious ass kissing to acquire.