General to Ask Lemmygrad · 1 year agoWhat do you tell people who say that communism won't work because “people will corrupt it and take advantage of the system the same way they do on capitalism”?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down15
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you tell people who say that communism won't work because “people will corrupt it and take advantage of the system the same way they do on capitalism”?General to Ask Lemmygrad · 1 year agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-21 year agoIf corruption is bad, why is it the driving force and motive of our entire economic system? Seems like an incentive structure far more ripe for abuse than some hypothetical non-blood-fueled system. Real “remove the beam from thine own eye” type deal
If corruption is bad, why is it the driving force and motive of our entire economic system? Seems like an incentive structure far more ripe for abuse than some hypothetical non-blood-fueled system. Real “remove the beam from thine own eye” type deal