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The US is Politically to the Right of [Other] Democracies (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why would it happen in Communism, mechanically? I'm not asking if it happened in AES states, but why.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As I said, The powerful will always seek to exploit the labor of the masses, under any economic system. It appears to be fundamental to human nature.

Note I'm not saying it's inevitable that it will happen, but I am saying it's inevitable that those in power will try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As I said, The powerful will always seek to exploit the labor of the masses, under any economic system. It appears to be fundamental to human nature.

This is pseudoscience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's empirically derived.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How so? Vibes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Name a single society where it hasn't happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At all, to any degree? Don't think that's possible, but it certainly happened to a far lesser extent in AES countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The extent to which it happens depends on the structures in place to prevent it. That's all I'm saying. If left unchecked, power corrupts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's still vibes-based, the post-office having a manage doesn't mean the system is tyrannical. How power is structured matters too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The boss of the post office would absolutely be tyrannical if they could lol. In fact they often are. "Going postal" is a whole thing.

But generally, the system keeps them in check.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That seems like pseudoscience to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's been hundreds of studies on it, but it seems so obvious to anyone who knows any history that I don't feel like looking them up. Literally every society in the history of humanity, it's happened, as far as I'm aware. Power corrupts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's been hundreds of studies on it, but it seems so obvious to anyone who knows any history that I don't feel like looking them up.

So, vibes, again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are obtuse and exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

You cannot form an argument based on sound logic to save your life.