Just going to leave an open thread here for those of us who have already tasted artisanal, hand-crafted communism and unlike this author, remember the techno-utopian promises that went with it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/fully-automated-luxury-communism.html …
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Really the morally terrifying thing about communism is that it replaces the profit motive with the desire to help others be happy, if necessary by force. Turns out the profit motive is way less scary.
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Hey, the worker controlling the means of production seemed to work ok-ish for Pinboard, as long as there was no free elections to meddle with!
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I was riven with internal contradictions
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