I vividly remember everyone saying this almost in unison in econ class in high school and being confused because it didn't really make any sense. If something is good in theory but bad in practice, you change the theory a bit to make it work, or you explain how the theory clashes with reality and can't be changed to make it not clash. You don't just leave it at "good in theory, bad in practice".
I always had it explained (note I don't believe this now just sharing an additional step some people are given to help them stop thinking) that people are too greedy and will thus fuck up a perfect system. I literally had my HS econ teacher say "Communism would be great, if we were all Spock" lmao.
I definitely used to say "it sounds great on paper but not in practice" and I didn't actually know why I was saying that
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I vividly remember everyone saying this almost in unison in econ class in high school and being confused because it didn't really make any sense. If something is good in theory but bad in practice, you change the theory a bit to make it work, or you explain how the theory clashes with reality and can't be changed to make it not clash. You don't just leave it at "good in theory, bad in practice".
I always had it explained (note I don't believe this now just sharing an additional step some people are given to help them stop thinking) that people are too greedy and will thus fuck up a perfect system. I literally had my HS econ teacher say "Communism would be great, if we were all Spock" lmao.
Makes it real frustrating when people throw that dumb line at me now. Like yeah I used to think that too, then I actually read books.
People who say this have never looked at either the paper or the practice