Second wish is for a version of communism that actually works on a large scale.
Just have to love that you get downvoted for something so basic. “Nah, the current and past versions were fine!” Like what the fuck?
It’s probably the same people who downvoted the meme. Effectively people who don’t want ANY version of communism
Communism: the best economic system in the world. that no one uses. Capitalism: everyone uses it.
Seems like the opposite is the case with a blatantly false statement getting massive upvotes from the radlibs of lemmy.
The post has 23 upvotes. What are you on about?
It had 0 when I commented.
I can not see the number of up/down votes, sadly, they copied that flaw from Reddit.
I can’t see the number of downvotes at a glance, but i can see that it has 152 upvotes and that 82% of people upvoted the post.
I’m far too lazy now, but this should be enough to do the math and get the number of downvotes or do you mean something else?
152 is the sum of the + and -1 votes 82 % were + So 18% were - So 18% of + were canceled from the - So what we see is the remaining 64% positive, which means that 100 % are 237 votes (42 downvotes, 195 upvotes)
To me, the post has 48 upvotes (net positive).
Welcome to Lemmy.
Why do people in the west have the need to keep pretending that communism doesn’t work at scale when there’s plenty of evidence that it does?
Because, it helps them justify living under an economic system which harms them and the world
yeah, it’s basically capitalist realism
Shit, we have examples or socialized markets that run whole economies. We don’t need to go far… Shit enforcing the current rules equally would change the world…
I think we have enough tech today to make it better
Yah, the pervasive surveillance should help immensely and totally not be used against the people.
wait until you find out what this tech is used for under capitalism
If you’re wishing anyway, you might as well go to the root of the problem and change human nature.
What does “Human Nature” have to do with organizational structures?
Humans are too tribal for communism to work on a large scale. Making them see all humanity as their tribe would be a good start.
…why? What on Earth are you talking about? Is this mysticism or something?
Because communism requires everyone to be willing to work for the betterment of society, not money. But unless everyone (or at least almost everyone) does that, it doesn’t work.
Does it?
Depending on what definition of communism you choose to use.
If it was only that simple
It isn’t, which is why much theory and practice has occured since the inception of these ideas, and grown over time.
But why didn’t the number of wishes decrement?
Because the genie agreed and didn’t think of it as a chore to do in any way.
That’s not really much of a joke. It pretty well invalidates the core concept.
It doesn’t, it emphazes it and makes it a joke.
Genie: I will do any 3 things for you
Person: eliminate Capitalists
Genie: I’ll give it to you for free, fuck the bourgeoisie
There’s the joke.
I agree with the sentiment, but it’s not really funny.
That’s your right. I disagree, it’s pretty funny.
/c/CircleJerk
Is that a genie or David Cameron?
abolishment
*abolition
Both words are considered acceptable, although abolition is indeed preferred.
