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Levantin wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point

Man, give me a tldr.

Arctic Lands wrote:

2.4% of US GDP? All managed by a couple people with computers? Impossible, it's not supposed to work!

Why does Walmart have an incentive to create good products or keep prices manageable? Because it actually has competitors. The government has no competitors and therefore has no incentive to be efficient or good for the people.

Liberatarianism wrote:

How is it private property if the government can confiscate it at any moment?

You can use it for profit, sell or rent it out. That's property. And it was only confiscated from huge owners to then give to smaller peasants.

Paziano wrote:

Well, it’s a whole accelerationist thing. We should be Italian, but the regime here wants to bring back Sumerian culture because they were “divinely inspired” to do so.

Aaaaagain that makes, I think, no sense. But good on you Paz, would you like raw or well done?

Liberatarianism wrote:

Why does Walmart have an incentive to create good products or keep prices manageable? Because it actually has competitors. The government has no competitors and therefore has no incentive to be efficient or good for the people.

You're missing the point. I'm saying that it's already possible to plan out large economic structures. And it's not like communism has a government. It has workers producing things for each other for use, not for profit. Incentive is there to work for a common good (yes, human nature allows that since changing social conditions will influence it)

Love Peace and Friendship wrote:

I blame Osmauri

Valid move.

Love Peace and Friendship wrote:

I blame Osmauri

now idk about the Teilhard stuff but this def is a violation of Church teaching lol 😭

Liberatarianism wrote:

I don’t think you understand the point of private property. If I own a house in a capitalist system the government can’t take away my house unless I commit crimes like tax evasion. If I own a house in Maoist China they can take away my house anytime they want and then send me to the fields.

The point of private property is protecting the surplus value the ruling class has alienated from the exploited class. This is an all-encompassing claim, including slavery, feudalism and capitalism.

Liberatarianism wrote:

Communists genuinely believing that a couple of government bureaucrats can manage an economy based on billions of decisions and transactions

I mean, depending on how technology will be in the future, might be feasible, but once again for the time being lets let the people decide where and how they procure their needs (of course abiding by local regulations).

Are you nerds still fighting over this?
Touch grass.

Levantin wrote:

now idk about the Teilhard stuff but this def is a violation of Church teaching lol 😭

Well, I don't act on it, and that's all I can really do.

I guess my situation is annoying, but such is life.