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What are you suggesting as a better system? To withold basic needs for profit, you need to be able to provide basic needs in the first place. All of the alter
by bboygravity 2y ago
What are you suggesting as a better system?
To withold basic needs for profit, you need to be able to provide basic needs in the first place.
All of the alternatives I know of can't even reach that point.
- max_hoffmann 2y agoA free market of cooperatives is an alternative. One might call it „cooperatism“, if it needs a term.
- toyg 2y agoAfter some initial mistakes, the Soviet system did provide basic needs. It was inefficient, badly led, conservative, repressive, ultimately undemocratic, and often produced very mediocre output (crappy houses, etc), but it ensured that everyone had food, shelter, work, healthcare, and education. Neither full-collectivism nor full-capitalism are the final answer.
- WalterBright 2y agoThe Soviet system only was able to provide basic needs when it decided to overlook the black market. It also allowed farmers to farm owned plots of land and sell their produce as they saw fit. This was the only way to stop the mass starvation.
- bboygravity 2y ago"some initial mistakes" is quite something to describe 9+ million people dying from hunger in Ukraine during the great famine.
- aguaviva 2y agoMore careful historians, such as Snyder, put the figure at around 3.5 million. Doesn't detract from your overall point though, which is quite valid.
- UncleSlacky 2y agoAnd how many famines were there under the Tsars?