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by TFYS 5y ago
And how would people know about these things if it weren't for these communist articles?
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by TFYS 5y ago
Population density in Finland is pretty low and we get unlimited data for about $25/month.
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by TFYS 5y ago
What's bad is relative. Bad quality of life 10000 years ago meant something different than it did 500 years ago or 200 years ago. People will always look at how other people in their community live. A poor person today can't compa
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by TFYS 5y ago
Wealth inequality is bad for the same reason soviet communism was bad. Concentration of power and the corruption that comes with it.
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by TFYS 6y ago
Why are the most productive members dissatisfied with the distribution of rewards, though? Is some kind of an ideal distribution part of human nature, or is it maybe learned from the environment you grow up in? If a more equal distribution
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by TFYS 6y ago
Even if you somehow avoid being influenced by ads directly, you can still get influenced indirectly. You will see the product more, hear people talking about it and maybe a friend recommends it to you. You might not recognize it, but that&#
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by TFYS 6y ago
Oh we're in a capitalist society alright. This is exactly where capitalism leads to, and it has been foreseen a long time ago by forgotten and hated economists. This is just an attempt to clear capitalism's name by calling the neg
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by TFYS 6y ago
Inequality itself is bad for many reasons. It creates a rift between people, causing feelings of envy and unfairness, increasing crime. It concentrates powers into fewer hands, and concentration of power rarely results in something good for
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by TFYS 7y ago
That's not exactly the same thing. Back when humans were hunter gatherers there was a lot more forest and a lot more fauna to eat. You also had a tribe that stuck with you for life. Modern inventions weren't known back then so you
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by TFYS 7y ago
Wealth spread does matter, though. Inequality decreases happiness, increases crime rate, concentrates power, etc. If you're poor the fact that you have a roof over your head, food to eat and a smartphone in your pocket doesn't mak
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by TFYS 7y ago
The government sent people to space decades ago. Elon and Bezos would be nowhere near sending people to space without the work government has done. The government spends trillions on wars exactly because of the power concentration you are d
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by TFYS 7y ago
Economic power can do much more than dangle a carrot. It can buy coercive power. It can also buy propaganda machines to fool people into believing what economic power needs them to believe. Economic power also gets to decide which projects
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by TFYS 7y ago
Many European countries have all those things and the birthrate is still falling.
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by TFYS 7y ago
We could transition into a model where works are crowdfunded before they are made by people who want them the most. Creators set the amount they want for their work and if there are enough people that wish to see the work it will get funded
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by TFYS 8y ago
Buying a yacht does subtract from a high end talent pool. It requires talented people to design and build a yacht.
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by TFYS 9y ago
Variety in life can come in many forms. The difference between different brands of products isn't that great. You get more spice for life from trying completely different things instead of different variations of the same thing. The PS
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by TFYS 9y ago
I didn't mean people would buy things with votes. People could just keep a list of things they need in order of importance and the system would only use those lists to calculate the optimal allocation of resources, for example. We&#x27
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by TFYS 9y ago
If we know exactly how much resources we have, how much resources we usually spend on things and we ask people what's most important to them now and in the near future, we can calculate the allocation of resources that does the best jo
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by TFYS 9y ago
Of course you'd have to somehow set limits on consumption in any system where resources are limited. The price mechanism isn't the only way to do that. You could for example have only one game system to begin with so there's
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by TFYS 9y ago
While he might have been right one hundred years ago, the economic calculation problem might not be a problem anymore. We're starting to get to the point where we have enough computing power to simulate the world economy. Everyone also
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by TFYS 9y ago
I believe concentration of power and the lack of transparency is what causes the problems in both systems. A "centralized" government that works for the people is possible, as long as we avoid those things. Make the democratic pro
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by TFYS 9y ago
Of course people have friends based on what their hobbies are. In my childhood and teenage years I was only allowed to play computer games during the weekend. While my friends were online chatting and gaming together, I was sitting alone in
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by TFYS 9y ago
> If I was wrong, the results, the economic standing, for all those nations I listed, wouldn't be so horrible. What you are saying about the economies of those countries might be true, but it's not necessarily because they are
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by TFYS 10y ago
One thing it has failed at is being sustainable. We'd already need multiple earths to sustain this thing. Capitalist countries have caused their share of deaths as well. Capitalism by itself fails at providing equal opportunities, you
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by TFYS 10y ago
I don't have enough knowledge in this area to say if the current regulations have done any good, but I'm sure there are legitimate reasons for those regulations in many cases. But my problem isn't really with freedom in the m
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by TFYS 10y ago
> Finally, what is the point here? An more economically "equal" society, or a society where people like me don't die waiting in line for care? I stridently advocate for the latter. So only the amount of economic value a pe
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by TFYS 11y ago
I think what you mean to say is that a planned economy is fundamentally, theoretically, and practically broken. Socialism doesn't necessarily mean a planned economy, there can be socialism with a market economy. Although I think some m