• Gabu@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    We are socially competitive animals, just as you can observe in other evolutionarily programmed creatures. We compare ourselves to others, we want to impress mates, etc.

    All of which can be achieved in a communist system, only instead of “look at my huge paycheck”, it’d be “look at all these skills I’ve acquired thanks to free public education and more free time”. People would stop mindlessly showing off innane manufactured waste and start actually acquire useful knowledge.

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      11 months ago

      Man you’re naive…you really think people are going to go around busting their asses to study, only to be rewarded with I have skills that allow me to do even harder mental tasks for the same physical rewards as someone who gets the same free time and paycheck and house and car as I do…

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        11 months ago

        I’m not naïve, it’s just that you are a bad person whose moral code can’t fathom working not for oneself, but for the betterment of the collective.

        I already do just that, by the way - study for the sake of knowledge, not for increasing my capital.

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          11 months ago

          Lol I run a equine and livestock rescue, and pay for peoples animals vet bills…out of my own pocket…the fuck are you to tell me my moral code is broken… I’m not the one advocating for communism…which always ends in dictatorship and death from those who want to keep it in place…naa you’re absolutely naive.

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            11 months ago

            I run a equine and livestock rescue, and pay for peoples animals vet bills…out of my own pocket…

            Which doesn’t preclude you being a bad person. Hitler was very much in favor of minimizing pollution and afforestation, for instance. I.E. Non Sequitur, doing a good thing doesn’t by itself make you a good person.

            the fuck are you to tell me my moral code is broken…

            A human being capable of rational though, exactly like you - only I stopped to think about this issue in particular, and you haven’t, choosing to reply emotionally instead.

            which always ends in dictatorship and death from those who want to keep it in place

            False, observably. In fact, you’re arguing from the position of proving a positive statement from a negative propostion, which is a fallacy.