Scott Alexander: "I still can't figure out where communism went wrong - only the giant pile of corpses tells me it was a bad idea" Also Scott Alexander: "I see no potential downside to universal basic income"pic.twitter.com/TllTvQWlBB
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Implying the initial opposition to communism was "because the peasants were gross" is such a current year take. translation: "I'm too dumb to think of arguments against communism, therefore everyone who lived before me must have been too"
Scott Alexander is unable to see the collective failure modes of human nature, such as holiness spiraling - because if he could, he would not be a rationalist. Bastiat, writing before Marx, could see the lustmorde in the eyes of the communists, because he knew men's hearts.
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