Post Azmv35iAJtg2UXJ6i8 by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #Azmv2wJ1I1DPJwTOlc by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-31T17:24:50Z
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Look guys, I love you leftists who want to get rid of money and markets and things because you see all the shit they've caused. But the slogan "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs" is just... meaningless.Like, how much caviar do you "need" and do you need more IPAs or brown ales, or sake? Do you need brown rice, or white rice, or quinoa? What do we do with this ton of wheat? Whole wheat bread? Triscuits? Sourdough? Baguettes?
(DIR) Post #Azmv2xYedNJdCinOm8 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-11-01T02:46:15Z
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@dlakelan Regulate the shit out of corporations, tax the shit out of the rich. When people have enough to eat and enjoy life, even bigots calm down. Caviar grosses me out anyway.
(DIR) Post #Azmv30ZTQmkmY8Cay8 by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-31T17:30:12Z
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It turns out that markets have real actual uses beyond just making capitalists rich. So the question is when and how to use them, not whether to get rid of them or not.Money too, a means of doing calculations about which possible projects seem best, is really important. Lots of projects seem like a good idea but given say 100 of them, which ones do we do first? Where things go wrong is large scale concentration of power through wealth and political control.
(DIR) Post #Azmv35iAJtg2UXJ6i8 by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-31T17:33:30Z
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Market Anarchists are still anti-state, and anti-police. How much farmland could Bill Gates "buy up" if there is no state to keep track of land titles, and no cops to beat the farmers working the land without his permission? Keeping things small, controlled by local "coops"/syndicates/etc and monetary systems based on public credit and public rules of banking etc is more what I'm about here. Anyway, just a halloween thought...