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but it was just interesting that she was more worried about trivial things like... watering plants and things than the likely possibility of starving to death
The Soviet Union only did well when they started to libarlize the economy from a planned economy to a mixed economy.
yeah she came back towards the end of the USSR so she sort of got to see a little change.. I guess it was probably even worse before she went
Yes you are right, gorb was in charge but yelstin was still in government
capitalism isn't the answer to everything
but its' the best thing we have
where a human's natural selfishness can benefit others
because not everyone can do it alone
so capitalism is the purist form of tit-for-tat
With regards to the history of the Soviet economy at frist it was mostly between free enterprise in the country and full on planned economy. The free enterprise period lasted untill 1926 when the Soviet Union reached pre-war levels of output so then they went full on planned economy which did help industrialize the place but after that the economy grow so quickly that it couldn't be managed any more so it fell apart.
Capitalism isn't the answer to everything?
No wonder Jeopardy didn't call me back
you know what I mean assjack 😛
😂
In a world where human labor is still required to meet basic needs and unpredictable acts of nature can cause unplanned rearrangement of vast ammounts of resources, some form of capitalism is the best we have
@LotheronPrime I think mixed economics are the best system because it still allows free enterprise while still preventing full on mass consumerism.
whats wrong with consumerism though?
I mean, what horror exists in people using money they earned to buy things they want?
and don't say the environment
because public demand has already shifted in favor of not fucking the environment
and corporations responded with their "green initatives"
mass automation will never be a thing in a way people thing doom and gloom will be
public demand is anything you staple as "a good cause"
think of all the things that weren't automated 100s of years ago and have been for a while and haven't really had an affect
cuz last i checked, LA, the corner stone of "we must do good at all costs" in the west is still full of smog, and combustable engine cars
there will always be soemthing new
@Dr.Wol having just consumerism provides no meaning in life and it leads to people thinking that only profit matters.
I don't see it as a zero sum game
I think when we get better with AI we will start seeing jobs like Pilots, and burger flippers, and grocery store cashiers, etc. going away.
i'll take profit matters above "surviving matters" which is what pretty much any non-capitalist system ends up prioritising
besides, people should find their own meaning in life, its part of being human, its part of being a man!
A man chooses, a slave obeys!
you can either have "no meaning" or "low lifeexpectancy"
which was just 55 or so 100 years ago
LoteronPrime It's because of preservatives in the Twinkies.
I'm sure of it
i dunno, make the friends around you happy, play games and enjoy life seems like a solid meaning to me
also, as JBP points out, meaning is brought from responsibility
good point though, all dem SJW's are irresponsible and feel like they have no meaning
I think society is more inportant than profits for corporations. A society is like the human body, the different parts of the society need to work together for it to work.
well they're responsibilities are misplaced, I think