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azuarc posted...

My utopia would be a communist society that actually works the way it's supposed to on paper. Communism -- in theory -- is the ideal form of government. As we all know, in practice, it's absolutely atrocious.

But the society we have instead, capitalist, is a perpetual struggle to fight consolidation of power, corporate interests, decisions being made with only short-term gain in mind, a wanton disregard for others...it's completely driven by extrinsic motivation, which is what's lacking in communism, and less vulnerable to being torpedoed by human nature, but it's still heavily, heavily flawed.

What do you mean when you say communism? Do you get any of your own stuff? Do you have your own computer, phone, and vehicle? Are you sure you don't just want heavily-regulated capitalism?

Like I'd say I'm a libertarian but I want some shockingly invasive business regulations because maximum freedom is different from minimal regulation.

A "no murder" law is good for individual liberty because it protects you from getting murdered, which is more salient than allowing you to murder. Similarly, business regulations that prevent billionaires from turning into trillionaires are pro-freedom because they protect the 99.999% of the businesses that are small and medium.

Uglyface2 posted...

EDIT: I'd like to see an international collaborative push towards mining and eventual colonization of space. There are such vast resources available in our solar system alone that we may never need to dig another hole deeper than we need to plant crops. It's oversimplified here, but the concept is real.

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