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The gaping hole in your average communist's redistribution pipe dream is always supply and demand, which cannot be explained away - so you conveniently ignore i
by waihtis 3y ago
The gaping hole in your average communist's redistribution pipe dream is always supply and demand, which cannot be explained away - so you conveniently ignore it and think there's some magic reality where everyone is happy with living in a degrowth mindset having very little of anything.
Of course we all know what ends up happening - an elite is formed via alternative means, and usually mass deaths, either from lack of resource or organized massacre.
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- 5350-uiop-1130 3y agoi think it's fair to want a middle ground between a 1% having 90% of all assets and absolute communism.
- waihtis 3y agoI think so too, the problem is the reigning narrative right now is arbitrary redistribution of wealth because "capitalism has caused all ills in the world" - which isn't driven by sensible people like you or the parent poster, but degrowth extremists
- spacemadness 3y agoI hate to break it to you, but your reply reads very extremist and non-sensible since you attacked the poster and called them a communist.
- vouaobrasil 3y agoI don't really subscribe to a communist philosophy. Communism was still attached to the idea of mass industrialism and some sort of vague equality for all. I just would be interested in having more equality in the realm of large land ownership for people that live on the land, which would include (1) Restrictions on foreign investments (2) Restrictions on large corporations/rich people owning lots of houses and real estate (3) A minimum, sort of "Universal Basic Land" similar to "Universal Basic Income" where everyone is entitled to at least some land
- waihtis 3y agothese are very reasonable suggestions and different to what I thought you were suggesting.
- tim333 3y agoI've thought of something along those lines that there should be something like a universal basic space to live. In the countryside it could be land and in cities the right to own a flat for somewhere around the construction cost. You wouldn't even need (1) and (2) as long as the government aquired and allocated sufficient land for the scheme.