• zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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    7 hours ago

    Yes, exactly! For all the noxious effects of greed, it drives competition which drives evolution.

    Even if a utopian communist/anarchist society were able to stabilize on its own, it would inevitably be overcome at some point in the future by a more competitive society that had martially evolved beyond the utopia’s understanding.

    Whether its right or wrong has no bearing on the entropy of it.

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      7 hours ago

      To the contrary, competition eliminates its own existence, eventually all markets will coalesce into large trusts that can be publicly owned and planned.

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        5 hours ago

        Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

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            4 hours ago

            The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

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                58 minutes ago

                Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn’t mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

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                  55 minutes ago

                  It’s not about being temporary, production becomes so complicated and wide-reaching that it must become planned and publicly owned.