Message from @ETBrooD

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2019-07-12 05:18:30 UTC  

The Soviet Union failed because of this exact problem, because you failed upwards

2019-07-12 05:19:13 UTC  

Being truthful was not smart, because it would get you punished. So you lied. And by lying you are a failure, because no one knows how much to produce, or how much you produced.

2019-07-12 05:19:19 UTC  

So incompetence got rewarded

2019-07-12 05:19:40 UTC  

well also they had a shitload of management positions that did literally nothing all day

2019-07-12 05:19:48 UTC  

Yep

2019-07-12 05:20:01 UTC  

Central planned economy is just a nightmare, you can't really do it.

2019-07-12 05:20:08 UTC  

Because if everyone owns something then what the fuck is the point of a manager

2019-07-12 05:20:19 UTC  

You get into so much problem trying to plan a nation level economy.

2019-07-12 05:20:25 UTC  

Well, the manager is there so someone can get punished if things go wrong

2019-07-12 05:20:50 UTC  

collective ownership also just

2019-07-12 05:20:54 UTC  

goes against human nature

2019-07-12 05:21:03 UTC  

So under communism your goal was to not get punished, not to produce optimally

2019-07-12 05:21:07 UTC  

like, if you don't own something why do you give a shit what happens to it

2019-07-12 05:21:11 UTC  

Two people cannot control the same item at the same time

2019-07-12 05:21:18 UTC  

^

2019-07-12 05:21:19 UTC  

You get ineffective resource management, no price to rule by, corruption.

2019-07-12 05:21:23 UTC  

It's a shit hole.

2019-07-12 05:21:25 UTC  

The other issue of redistribution of wealth

2019-07-12 05:21:33 UTC  

Firstly

2019-07-12 05:21:35 UTC  

the problem of scale.

2019-07-12 05:21:52 UTC  

Redistribution of wealth is the less dysfunctional part of socialism

2019-07-12 05:21:55 UTC  

At the end of the day if you take that 99% of the money in 1% of the populations hands and divide it among the other 99% of the population the actual amount of money they get is fuck all.

2019-07-12 05:22:12 UTC  

I did the math on Bill Gates and it was like 1,000 dollars per person

2019-07-12 05:22:23 UTC  

That's minimum wage's monthly income.

2019-07-12 05:22:34 UTC  

collectivization doesn't necessarily = state ownership

2019-07-12 05:22:36 UTC  

Yeah, and also another things

2019-07-12 05:22:40 UTC  

That and 99% of their shit is physical property

2019-07-12 05:22:47 UTC  

which costs too much to be divided

2019-07-12 05:22:48 UTC  

And lastly

2019-07-12 05:22:49 UTC  

It’s a one time deal also

2019-07-12 05:22:55 UTC  

Money has to be concentrated to actually be worth anything.

2019-07-12 05:22:58 UTC  

Nothing in the socialist definition says that wealth must be redistributed to the less fortunate

2019-07-12 05:23:04 UTC  

If i own an office building that's worth a lot

2019-07-12 05:23:05 UTC  

It can go to the wealthy instead

2019-07-12 05:23:08 UTC  

I can do a lot with an office building

2019-07-12 05:23:14 UTC  

if I own one fuckin square foot of an office building

2019-07-12 05:23:17 UTC  

its completely useless.

2019-07-12 05:23:51 UTC  

and also a beurocratic nightmare to even use the building now.

2019-07-12 05:24:01 UTC  

what is this supposed to be analogous to

2019-07-12 05:24:27 UTC  

Yeah idk either, this can also happen under capitalism

2019-07-12 05:24:29 UTC  

Its supposed to be literal.
The building is owned by someone.
You redistribute the wealth of that person including the building.