I assume that when everyone else in this thread is talking about socialism and communism, they mean like the Wikipedia definitions, not just more government.
explodicle
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Yes, the private sector did have enough capital to cover those loans. The public sector did it because it was a bad investment when you count opportunity cost.
"Humans are awful" is why they call econ the dismal science; did they actually present that as a reason why communism wouldn't work when your classes covered it?
Wouldn't the LVT+UBI that Henry George proposes effectively cancel rent and then some? We'd be getting paid 100% of the surplus from land use, not just a safety net.
If only there was a way to encourage people to do things besides forcing them.
I love it when I'm reading the comments for a meme about butts or something, and then it quickly evolves into a deep discussion about the nature of human society.
Do we have an expectation of privacy for our upvotes, or is that generally supposed to be public information? I like to think my comments and upvotes match up pretty well.
I wasn't conscious of it until I had stopped, but on Reddit I was censoring myself to avoid my comments getting deleted.
Why does it matter which software we're running? Running a Bitcoin node on something comes right after running Doom on it.
Japan was right all along
The previous system beat it; fostering expertise across generations by inheriting your job from your dad. And they thought they were free too.