General@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml • 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-square22 fedilinkarrow-up138
arrow-up138message-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@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml • 1 year agomessage-square22 Commentsfedilink
minus-squareShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]hexbear15·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 link
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