Second wish is for a version of communism that actually works on a large scale.
Just have to love that you get downvoted for something so basic. “Nah, the current and past versions were fine!” Like what the fuck?
It’s probably the same people who downvoted the meme. Effectively people who don’t want ANY version of communism
Communism: the best economic system in the world. that no one uses. Capitalism: everyone uses it.
Welcome to Lemmy.
The post has 23 upvotes. What are you on about?
It had 0 when I commented.
I can not see the number of up/down votes, sadly, they copied that flaw from Reddit.
I can’t see the number of downvotes at a glance, but i can see that it has 152 upvotes and that 82% of people upvoted the post.
I’m far too lazy now, but this should be enough to do the math and get the number of downvotes or do you mean something else?
152 is the sum of the + and -1 votes 82 % were + So 18% were - So 18% of + were canceled from the - So what we see is the remaining 64% positive, which means that 100 % are 237 votes (42 downvotes, 195 upvotes)
To me, the post has 48 upvotes (net positive).
Seems like the opposite is the case with a blatantly false statement getting massive upvotes from the radlibs of lemmy.
Shit, we have examples or socialized markets that run whole economies. We don’t need to go far… Shit enforcing the current rules equally would change the world…
Yeah lets not look at the large scale capitalism that is definitely working for society
I think we have enough tech today to make it better
Yah, the pervasive surveillance should help immensely and totally not be used against the people.
wait until you find out what this tech is used for under capitalism
That’s an interesting take, wanna tell me more? (I’m sick right now and my brain cells don’t function well enough to think for myself but that’s unironically an interesting take)
that the means of production are very easily owned by the working class and petit bourgeoisie? throw a dart at a list of SaaS products.
SaaS
owned
Pick one.
well I meant that most business tools have a free/affordable tier or competitor, there’s little structure holding back a profit-sharing model in terms of infrastructure
If you’re wishing anyway, you might as well go to the root of the problem and change human nature.
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Humans are too tribal for communism to work on a large scale. Making them see all humanity as their tribe would be a good start.
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Because communism requires everyone to be willing to work for the betterment of society, not money. But unless everyone (or at least almost everyone) does that, it doesn’t work.
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Depending on what definition of communism you choose to use.
Why do people in the west have the need to keep pretending that communism doesn’t work at scale when there’s plenty of evidence that it does?
Because, it helps them justify living under an economic system which harms them and the world
yeah, it’s basically capitalist realism
So, I haven’t been on Lemmy for very long, but one thing seems to be true here, just like on Reddit: People don’t understand nuance and are only drawn to extremes. There’s sooo much going on between facism and unchecked capitalism and communism, but so many people here are just willfully ignoring that, apparently 🙄
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yes, lengthy, nuanced, disputations, are just what the four panel comics, on the meme forum, needs.
or maybe you don’t have some especially well considered, enlightened perspective, and people here believe the things they do for reasons that align with their life experience and education, just as with yourself. taking a centrist stance is not some objectively superior position from which to view politics. you aren’t endowed with special insight for choosing the midpoint between ideologies that contradict each other.
If it was only that simple
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I’ m so proud of my boy
But why didn’t the number of wishes decrement?
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That’s not really much of a joke. It pretty well invalidates the core concept.
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I agree with the sentiment, but it’s not really funny.
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Is that a genie or David Cameron?
/c/CircleJerk
Problem as always with these Wishes. You didn’t really clarify what we will have instead of capitalism. Now he changed the world to some entire new system that no one ever thought of before that is even worse. :o You need to state as much detail as possible when wishing
abolishment
*abolition
Both words are considered acceptable, although abolition is indeed preferred.
