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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 months ago

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 months ago
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  • Vitaly
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    0•4 months ago

    It’s a great idea that simply doesn’t work in practice

    • Lunar
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      0•4 months ago

      cool platitude bro

      you’ve never actually thought about this at all have you?

    • @NewDark@lemmings.world
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      0•4 months ago

      It doesn’t work in practice when capitalist countries routinely snuff it out. You’re correct, but not for a good reason.

    • @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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      0•4 months ago

      Why?

      • @joenforcer@midwest.social
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        0•4 months ago

        Ever hear of the prisoner’s dilemma?

        • Dessalines
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          0•4 months ago

          “Hey friend, can you share some of your potato chips?”

          “Sorry, prisoners dilemma, can’t.”

          • @joenforcer@midwest.social
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            0•4 months ago

            Yep, you got it!

        • davel [he/him]
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          0•4 months ago

          Name dropping a game theory hypothetical is not an argument.

          • @joenforcer@midwest.social
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            0•4 months ago

            You’re right, it’s not an argument. But it’s a perfectly sufficient reply to a one-word question that doesn’t properly provide an argument of its own.

            • Cowbee [he/they]
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              0•4 months ago

              Your original comment only garnered a one word question because you were too vague.

              • @joenforcer@midwest.social
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                0•4 months ago

                The original comment that garnered a one word response wasn’t mine. Thanks though.

                • Cowbee [he/they]
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                  0•4 months ago

                  There was a vague “argument,” followed by a request for elaboration, followed by another somehow more vague “argument” from yourself.

      • @Samsy@lemmy.ml
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        0•4 months ago

        This isn’t your sleeping place! It belongs to the community. And share your food. Why do you think it’s just yours?

        Real talk, the difference is property. This doesn’t exist in pure communism. Can you live without property?

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          0•4 months ago

          Personal property is fine in Communism, the entire reason Communists want to collectivize industry and production is so that it can be done along a common plan to satisfy use, not for profit and hoarding wealth. Communists don’t want to take your toothbrush.

        • davel [he/him]
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          0•4 months ago

          Are you ignorant or are you trolling?

          • https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Private_property
          • https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Personal_property
          • @Samsy@lemmy.ml
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            0•4 months ago

            More like a historical joke. Never heard of the background from communism or where the wording came from? Commune, common?

            • Lunar
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              0•4 months ago

              i was just kidding guys!!

            • @funnyguy@lemmy.ml
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              0•4 months ago

              don’t quit your day job

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          0•4 months ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_property

    • Dessalines
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      0•4 months ago

      Wrong. Its capitalism that doesn’t work in practice.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      0•4 months ago

      What do you mean by that? I think it’s pretty evident by analyzing AES states that shifting the economy into a more collectivized and planned direction comes with numerous benefits. What do you mean when you say it “doesn’t work in practice?”

      • Vitaly
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        0•4 months ago

        I mean that every post communist country is very poor now, like Ukraine or Cuba

        • Cowbee [he/they]
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          0•4 months ago

          The Cuban people are doing better now under Socialism than they were under the fascist slaver Batista. Their life expectancies grew dramatically, literacy rates among the best in the world from widespread illiteracy, and they have one of the world’s most progressive family codes despite massive embargo.

          Ukraine is Capitalist, the fall of the Soviet Union resulted in 7 million excess deaths over the entire former USSR and obliterated what was once a stable economy. There were issues with the later Soviet Economy due to poor economic reforms, but other Socialist countries have learned from this, and these problems were correctable without nuking the economy.

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