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Originally Posted by pylon
I have a question for rubecube, and this isn't a slight, just a general curiosity question.
If you were given 2 choices, and your life depends on selecting one, which would you choose?:
1) Live in a full on Communist Society modelled after mid-seventies Soviet Union. You get everything you need, nothing you don't, and every move you make, is monitored.
2) Live in the worst case scenario 'wet-dream' of a Republican 'Murica where capitalism, guns, full on Freedom!, and Trump rule.
Jumping off a bridge is not an option. This is a compromise you have to willingly make.
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#2 could get pretty rough. Sell the national parks to oil exploration, let Florida sink, allow all the banks consolidate into a single institution, probably have to start shooting people at the boarder big the climate refugees will start coming...
I'm always curious about the Soviets being used as a perfect model for socialism and/or communism in rhetorical conversation. Obviously they were nothing close to the perfect model any socialist would aspire to, so you are just reframing the ideas in an uncharitable way rather than engaging with their merits. I tend to think social infrastructure is almost immeasurably important to the economies we have, so I'd say #1 is a far safer bet than #2.
By Social Infrastructure I mean:
roads
parks
schools
militaries
government structures
public health facilities
public utility regulators...