• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    But it’s not like companies or business entities won’t have folks in charge of them under communism… Someone has to run the whatevers…

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        7 months ago

        Or, as has happened in capitalism, people will find ways to bend the system to benefit themselves. Except this time without boards so much as bribable officials and whatnot.

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          7 months ago

          Capitalism is explicitly designed for people to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Capital begets more capital in a positive feedback loop that results in massively powerful billionaires.

          If you elect representatives, those representatives are checked somewhat by the threat of being voted out. Capitalism has no such check. Sure, ostensibly people can choose not to buy a product, but unregulated capitalism selects for monopolies.

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            7 months ago

            Capitalism is explicitly designed

            Capitalism was never designed, it emerged from Feudalism. Capitalism was never an idea, but a result of technological advancement, just as Socialism will be from Capitalism.

            Just a minor correction, the rest of your comment is broadly correct.

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      7 months ago

      Ideally, supervision over most non critical sectors would fall to randomly drafted, single term committees of the people, think jury duty except better compensated and obviously with bureaucratic resources available to enable these committees to fulfil their role adequately.

      Now this isn’t suited for everything, but in either system any true oversight is done by the people, not the state.