• Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Love your optimism, but “making things affordable” is not a valid plan for managing resources. It provides a goal without a solution.

    Are you suggesting price fixing? That has a lot of associated outcomes that typically cause worse situations than doing nothing.

    You can introduce a guaranteed buyer at fixed price points which alleviate some of the negative consequences, but add others.

    These are not simple problems. The reason these problems exist isn’t solely because “rich and powerful people are evil” as nice as that would be. These problems still exist because they’re complicated and ‘one size fits all’ solutions haven’t been found for them.

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      10 months ago

      The obvious solution is to dismantle capitalism and destroy anyone that gets in the way.

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        10 months ago

        Again, love the lofty goal you’re setting, but you pretty blatantly don’t mention an alternative system. Easy to point out a problem, much harder to build a real solution.

        The funny thing is, capitalism happened organically. It wasn’t a designed system. So dismantling capitalism without a solid replacement will likely just lead right back to capitalism.

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          10 months ago

          The funny thing is, capitalism happened organically. It wasn’t a designed system. So dismantling capitalism without a solid replacement will likely just lead right back to capitalism.

          March of history. When material conditions are right you transition from feudalism to capitalism. When material conditions build up further, you get the transition to socialism and then communism.