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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Maybe one of the worst forms of regulation is stuff that discourages people from deviating from "normal civilization". It's done with good intent, but raises the floor of what you have to be or do in order to survive, and limits the flexibility of people who want to
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
drop out of capitalism. I like capitalism, don't get me wrong, but I like freedom better, and we currently have a system that uses force to keep people inside it. There's laws that make it harder to grow gardens, or build basic shelters, or busk, or sell wares. Want to find a
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
cheap patch of land somewhere and do things however the fuck you want to do them, with as little consumerism as possible? We've got a myriad of laws that makes this really hard to do if you don't want to actively hide from law enforcement.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm pretty pro-business, anti-government, yay-unregulated-economy, but this is probably where I overlap the most with the communist style philosophy that's in fashion with many of my friends - the ideal small-group, permaculture, materialism-minimizing mindset.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I love the idea of making a small commune with my friends where resources are pooled and we live off the land and hold hands and meditate or whatever. That's my wet dream. I'm down with working with whoever to get government hands off our backs so we can actually do that easier.
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Lucio Martelli
@LucioMM1
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@Aella_Girl
Ye surely a regulation that blocks you from selling something, is there as a roadblock for people who want to drop capitalism. Uhm no. Those regulation s are limits to capitalism and that is why they are bad. Not the other way around