Message from @zutt

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2018-07-10 18:08:51 UTC  

no borders + socialism = everyone made worse off, or no change.

2018-07-10 18:10:02 UTC  

Except it all gets lost in the grass.

2018-07-10 18:12:25 UTC  

the problem with socialism is that it is designed to block economic progress.

2018-07-10 18:12:40 UTC  

because being well off is viewed as a problem

2018-07-10 18:12:50 UTC  

unless everyone is as well off as you

2018-07-10 18:16:23 UTC  

unchecked captalistic hierarchies are a bad thing

2018-07-10 18:16:36 UTC  

unchecked socialism is a bad thing

2018-07-10 18:16:41 UTC  

the answer is somewhere in the middle

2018-07-10 18:17:21 UTC  

Circular hierarchies are best hierarchies.

2018-07-11 03:39:43 UTC  

Granade problem with socialism is that ita against human nature

2018-07-11 03:40:06 UTC  

It would only work in truly altruistic society

2018-07-11 03:46:49 UTC  

I think it works just fine in a extremely small populations too.

2018-07-11 03:47:00 UTC  

Basically anything under say 200 people.

2018-07-11 03:48:05 UTC  

Depends

2018-07-11 03:48:09 UTC  

It can

2018-07-11 03:48:26 UTC  

Yeah it can still go horribly wrong too.

2018-07-11 03:48:33 UTC  

It also works in certain internet communities

2018-07-11 03:48:52 UTC  

I'm just saying the only way it can work is small communities.

2018-07-11 03:48:56 UTC  

For example early subtitle maker community was pretty socialist

2018-07-11 03:49:19 UTC  

Hacker spaces are pretty socialist too.

2018-07-11 03:50:02 UTC  

Its because those ppl have another then material motivation that it works

2018-07-11 03:50:31 UTC  

other than material motivation?

2018-07-11 03:52:25 UTC  

I dont think lack of monetary motivation makes something socialist. Value judgements extend beyond fiat currency

2018-07-11 03:52:44 UTC  

The subtitle community had a government that took control of the means of production?

2018-07-11 03:53:25 UTC  

even if we use Marx's endpoint as our metric for socialism

2018-07-11 03:53:47 UTC  

which is to say, even if we're attempting to be the most charitable, and setting the goalpost closest to the situation being described

2018-07-11 03:57:24 UTC  

I was referencing the mentality of from each according to their ability to each according to their need. In hacker spaces it's a social contract that you help those who don't know.

2018-07-11 03:57:39 UTC  

And that the help be freely exchanged.

2018-07-11 03:57:50 UTC  

That's just called being a nice person and working together

2018-07-11 03:58:19 UTC  

You're being pedantic again.

2018-07-11 03:58:22 UTC  

Socialism and communism are whole political, economic, and philosophical ideologies

2018-07-11 03:58:27 UTC  

That is not pedantry

2018-07-11 03:58:57 UTC  

They do not have a monopoly on community

2018-07-11 03:59:13 UTC  

These systems are very clearly defined

2018-07-11 03:59:19 UTC  

Yes they are, and parts of them can be adapt, and don't have to be taken in their entirety.

2018-07-11 03:59:44 UTC  

And most of those parts existed before the systems were created

2018-07-11 03:59:55 UTC  

No one said they did, no one said that Marx was the first one to think up this shit either.

2018-07-11 04:00:09 UTC  

It just doesn't make sense though.

2018-07-11 04:00:38 UTC  

It's like saying that it's feudal to want to have land that others work on

2018-07-11 04:00:44 UTC  

Systems of government don't come into existence out of nothing.

2018-07-11 04:01:17 UTC  

No it's not.