Such things never happen in America of coursehttps://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1390131708276756480 …
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @ScottishMongol
This was a fellow who had been in the USSR on and off since I think at least the late-60s. He'd also been in the USA during the gasoline shortages and malaise of the 70s. He seemed to think what he saw in the USSR was meaningfully different.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @ScottishMongol
I do not think the brief disruptions of the last year would have changed his mind. Certainly there is a difference between shortages in a pandemic and shortages during a time of peace and health.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @ScottishMongol
Sorry if I am a bit touchy here, but Twitter felt the need to remind me that there are really still tankies out there who think the USSR was a great idea, mass murder and all, which has left a desire to make sure the record is clear that Soviet communism didn't work very well.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
I appreciate the response, actually. Personally I don't actually think the USSR was either good or efficient, but I'm also not particularly inclined to confidence in the American system; both seem to be failures in different ways.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @ScottishMongol ja @BretDevereaux
America doesn't have as many shortages yet despite our surplus many people lack access to necessary goods and services.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @ScottishMongol
I know we could be doing better, but my view is also tempered by the knowledge that shortage, not abundance, is the normal human condition. It's important to judge both by the distance between what we could do and where we are, and between where we are and the poverty of normal.
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I would tend to say not that our system has failed, but that it has not succeeded as fully as it might. America is not the F student, but the B/B+ student who could have an A if only we applied ourselves a bit more diligently to our studies.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @ScottishMongol
I've seen the analogy used of flashing vs. occulting lights, originally for war crimes but I think it works here too. Some countries have occasional moments of light in the darkness. Others have occasional moments of darkness interrupting the light.
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