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Fuck it. That Ultra's post history is a goldmine.
SHEER LIGHT BENDING ULTRA ENERGY BELOW THIS LINE. NOT ALL OF IT WILL MAKE SENSE UNLESS YOU CAN READ BENT LIGHT
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You will have to bootstrap it.
People value things. In capitalism, the ones who value them the most, and who are able to pay, get them.
If you disrupt this mechanism by allocating resources differently, you risk that resources are wasted. Of course you can use other allocations but is that a good idea?
Capitalism has many flaws, e. g. monopolies disrupt this mechanism, but it just has to be better than its competitors to survive.
You imagine taking over capitalism and allocating luxeries differently. I doubt that those luxeries will exist. If workers only want to work e.g. 8 hours per week, because socialism, the surplus will be gone.
If you can make those workers work more under socialism without a gun to their head, then you should be able to do so right now within the legal framework of a coop.
It should be easier because you only have to manage production processes without fighting a war.
Sidequestion: how does a member of the bourgeoisie without capital look like?
Cake is a present where everybody gets a slice because the cake was selected accordingly.
If only one person can get promoted, or an increased budget for wages is available, could that be resolved without managers, not just in theory but all over the world?
Yes, let's also outsource the revolution.
Will China take over America? If not, why would China change the economic system in the West? Without the petrodollar, there should just be significantly less resources available.
Money is not fake in international trade. Resources can be delivered to other countries.
And yet China managed to survive. Of course there are external factors but it's important to know which internal decisions could have led to success.
Processors, internet, renewable energy, etc. Maybe winning the space race prevented success in other areas?