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You're not getting it's not communism that's inefficient, it's humans.

A good country would work fine under a capitalist or communist system because it's just a bunch of good people who happen to prefer one system over the other.

Real countries are into killing and dying and being delusional about fossil fuel.

It also just so happens that communism was the original system and is the only one we've ever had where humans were sorta properly functional. We still all died, but we coped better with it and we weren't finding ways to wipe out the planet (including ourselves). It remains to be seen whether experimenting with other systems leads to more survival or less.
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Laeserin 1y ago

You are confusing communism with lower forms of communitarianism, like the transactions within a family of blood relatives and mates, or within an ethnic tribe. A system that scales decreasingly well, the less sexually or genetically-related the participants are. Communitarianism doesn't sever producers from capital, it just changes the incentive structure for production.

Communism is not a system run on selfish genes advancing their own promotion. It's a bunch of randoms taking other people's stuff.

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

The humans in this world are more into tribalism than any non-tribalist form of capitalism or communism.

A tribe of humans who are into working together and being as chill as possible towards enemies can exist - in fact I see an example: most of the devs building nostr as capitalists, including you. The same could be done without currency or capitalism, assuming we still had computers and people who are into working together.

And either way, it would be great if the people building nostr weren't outnumbered by people who are so naturally tribalistic, they have a hard time understanding the issue with censorship... those people don't let communism scale, and they don't let capitalism price oil high enough, among many other good things they don't allow.