how would your system function?

socialists believe in the freeing of the workers as a class, which means all private property becomes government

not just some

what does that mean?

it's a description in terms of capitalism

what it is NOT

rather than what it IS

It means you own nothing, everything is a tentative privilege that can be revoked for any reason

@Ϻ14ᛟ good quote

@ManAnimal - It wouldn't be too much different from what we have now, except business decisions would take more factors into account and financial transfers would be regularly made to account for externalities in business operation. Social welfare would become a factor too.

All pollution-heavy businesses would begin accounting for healthcare costs in the price of production.

what is a worker or class in a communist system?

Which is why I say fuck socialism

Socialism would also begin moving towards the construction of arcologies.

who knows mananimal

whoever they decide

they want everyone to be the same class

how do you have business under communism?

marxists/communsits at least

and socialism implies that

you don't have businesses

@ManAnimal you don't

I want everyone to be dirty hippies

again, lots of hand waving

exactly random

Bullets go through more if them that way

@ManAnimal - You don't. You just get to be a manager for a state owned business.

Theoretically you could get better managers that way. In practice, government fucks it up.

manager of what?

Tell me, what happens after communism?

Because everyone is payed the same wether they do their job or not, so no one works

a buiness has a 'what' and a 'why; the why is profit

the what is the productor service

none of these exist under communism

so manager of what?

You know its high iq hours when hitler quotes come out

I know what happens after nazis, I know what happens "after" capitalism. But I don't know what happens after communism. What does it evolve to?

Currently, the only way to "own" a business is to have lots of wealth. Theoretically, this is automatically locking out a huge proportion of our population from having any ability to guide the economy, even when they might do a much better job at running things.

A socialist system, in theory, could select the best people regardless of family background. In practice, government bureaucrats are often incompetent fuckwits who have no fucking clue about how to do their job, and they often select people who are just as incompetent as they are.

@Reprehensibletrash mass graves

you can own a buisness for 100usd

I'm of the mind that the cold war (Marxism vs Capitalism) was just an A/B test to find out which was the best method to control the masses.

just file the paperwork