Message from @Skeleton

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2020-04-21 19:48:21 UTC  

Really capitalism is just libertarian socialism except the proletariat is replaced with capitalists

2020-04-21 19:48:29 UTC  

And the nonstates hands it all to that class

2020-04-21 19:48:36 UTC  

See that retardation

2020-04-21 19:48:40 UTC  

>It's jsut like socialism because race the proletariat or something
For real, kinda this

2020-04-21 19:48:43 UTC  

Reject capitalism
return to feudalism

2020-04-21 19:48:55 UTC  

Oh misread that

2020-04-21 19:49:03 UTC  

A state acting in the interest of a group when not even nationalizing the entire economy is not socialist

2020-04-21 19:49:11 UTC  

> Reject capitalism
> return to feudalism
@vexmasina44
Based

2020-04-21 19:49:13 UTC  

You gotta use that term properly and sparingly

2020-04-21 19:49:20 UTC  

Then no state would be socialist, however

2020-04-21 19:49:25 UTC  

Or barely any

2020-04-21 19:49:43 UTC  

Soviet Russia had a planned economy so it is

2020-04-21 19:49:57 UTC  

Planned as in all major buisness being state run

2020-04-21 19:49:59 UTC  

Did they socialize prostitution though?

2020-04-21 19:50:10 UTC  

Did they also plan on collapsing in 1991
was that also part of their planed economy

2020-04-21 19:50:15 UTC  

Yes, but they didn't plan with the common good in mind

2020-04-21 19:50:19 UTC  

I think it was outlawed by Soviets Splaet

2020-04-21 19:50:35 UTC  

They had this ambition but in the end, interest groups prevailed

2020-04-21 19:51:27 UTC  

But they didn't socialize girlfriends therefore the soviet union wasn't socialist because they didn't socialize everything.

2020-04-21 19:51:55 UTC  

The issue with the Soviet model is that the statistics for economic development are toilet paper and most state directed development focused on failing branches of the economy which means they provided an incentive for factories to actually not produce as much as possible and reward dysfunctional branches

2020-04-21 19:52:04 UTC  

The Soviet Union was most definitely socialist

2020-04-21 19:53:13 UTC  

The Soviets made their economic calculations using prices from abroad, that alone suggests to me that the problems of central planning are more fundamental than bad leadership

2020-04-21 19:53:17 UTC  

Yeah so like subsidies?

2020-04-21 19:54:03 UTC  

I don't think the major issue was pricing

2020-04-21 19:54:20 UTC  

What they also did is just lower prices without keeping up production

2020-04-21 19:54:41 UTC  

So someone on paper could afford all the food they want but in practice it was first come first served

2020-04-21 19:55:36 UTC  

Slack labour is another point people like to make but it really exists under any system
"I pretend to work so they pretend to pay" is something you see even today

2020-04-21 19:56:18 UTC  

Yes but companies that do that too much tend to go bankrupt.

2020-04-21 19:56:37 UTC  

Not necessarily

2020-04-21 19:56:42 UTC  

Small buisnesses do

2020-04-21 19:56:43 UTC  

There were a tons of problems with it. Bad incentives, bad information for the planners, lack of know-how, but most of that could be solved in theory. That without price signals for them, you cannot allocate non-specific higher-order capital goods rationally, that would break the back of socialism.

2020-04-21 19:56:52 UTC  

There is a lot of dead weight in large corporations

2020-04-21 19:57:24 UTC  

In my company, we all slacked. We were also all fired eventually, so make of that what you will 🤷‍♂️

2020-04-21 19:57:42 UTC  

huh
i did exactly the same

2020-04-21 19:57:54 UTC  

Yes there is, they suffer from a lot of the same problems like governments do.

2020-04-21 19:57:58 UTC  

I don't think the issue with their plans was prices
They were simply rewarding the least effective parts of their economy to become more developed

2020-04-21 19:58:00 UTC  

why does this keep happening to me
fired for no good reason

2020-04-21 19:58:11 UTC  

Not prices per se

2020-04-21 19:58:16 UTC  

Prices for capital goods

2020-04-21 19:59:01 UTC  

Idk. Afaik when corn output looked bad someone like Krushchev just focused attention and resources exclusively there

2020-04-21 19:59:09 UTC  

Which leads to negative consequences