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It is about power and inequality, and the system-wide outcomes overall of such moves. We are seeing massive consolidation of wealth at the top. Relaxed attitude
by hnhg 2y ago
It is about power and inequality, and the system-wide outcomes overall of such moves. We are seeing massive consolidation of wealth at the top. Relaxed attitudes like yours won't slow this down.
- _heimdall 2y agoWhat do you propose though? Most of the policies I've seen proposed lately have a very Marxist or communist feel to them. Personally I'm not willing to go down that road as a solution, though I'd love solutions that don't go to such extremes.
- michaelmrose 2y agoCommunism would be dispossessing all the farmers and store of everything they have, assigning workers to these industries and deciding what they should plant, package, and provide and how the wares ought to be distributed to society. It doesn't help discussion to mislabel every form of government intervention as communism. It frames things every functional government does as somehow a slippery slide towards the USSR.
- _heimdall 2y agoThat's one very specific implementation of communism. Price controls, central planners allocating resources, even universal basic income are all ideas that are very much inline with Marxism.
- hnhg 2y agoEven if I can't propose a solution, it doesn't remove the problem, does it?
- _heimdall 2y agoIs it really a solution if it doesn't remove the problem?