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You got some point with the climate, we should do more for sure. But seeing communism as some kind of holy grail solution is absurd.

Problem is no one wants to resign from all the goodies and comforts. We could solve it overnight if only people truly were ready for sacrifices but everyone uses maximum excuses to not do anything.

Some wait for communism to solve it. Very comfortable position. We all have our scapegoats.

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A socialist economy where workers own the businesses means that the people making the decisions will be sensitive to their impact on the average person, rather than multi billionaires building bunkers to survive the collapse.

It means people will not vote to pollute their own water supply to make a buck.

It’s not a holy grail, but it’s a solution because it makes the economy democratic rather than dictatorial.

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Let me tell you what happened here some time ago.
After the government seized the means of production to people they gave each worker a share in the company.
On that same day the workers sold it or lost it, bought vodka or cigarettes for the few pennies they made. Not much was left in the original hands. Someone bought the majority.

The ideal economic system works perfect under perfect conditions. Capitalism works ok under most of conditions.

Evolution of economic systems is not a history of choosing the perfect one but elimination of these that failed.

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That’s a poor implementation just like there are myriad poor implementations of capitalism

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Those people barely can avoid trump reign and majority don’t think climate change is real and you think they will be able to handle managing the collective economy? You are very optimistic for a doomer you know.
We barely qualify for democracy and you want to make economy into a direct democracy. That’s very cute, no offense.

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None of this changes that capitalism is the root problem. You think we need better regulation, which is fine and pragmatic and likely our shortest route, but it’s a patch.

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You can take those 3 arrows out of your pfp now. Ancap ass or 3-letter agent bullshit is all you espouse. Working class traitor

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