Turns out, the problem is unaccountable economic decision-making apparatuses in general
Turns out, the problem is unaccountable economic decision-making apparatuses in general
The current system is so accountable
We have pipelines exploding, oil companies buying reweable companies to shelf them so oil usage doesn't take a hit, pedestrian hostile infrastructure
Didn't the USA military lose a nuke? And like billions a year of the pentagon budget is unexplained? No no it's the Soviets that are unaccountable
23I don't know where you got the idea that I was saying that capitalism was accountable?
18How many guesses do you think you'd need to figure it out
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It's not "lost". They're safely storing it in a NC swamp. It's so secure that even they can't find it.
8Imagine defending a failed authoritarian state that repressed and killed 10s of millions of its own people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repression_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Soviet_Union
7You're right I do have to imagine it because I didn't do that
Edit I should have gone with a "you're just telling me this right now for the first time" meme
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Starving population, healthcare access, nuclear meltdown in the 80s, nuclear testing on (unknowing) humans, all the deregulation causing mass pollution, etc.
4USA losing one nuke is nothing compared to the amount the Soviets lost over the years
4USA losing
one nukesix nukes is nothing compared to the amount the Soviets lost over the years.FTFY.
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You’ve just reserved your place in the gulag after the Revolution
13Three people are sitting in GULAG.
One says to the other, "I am in here for supporting PugJesus. What about you?"
The other says, "I am in here for opposing PugJesus."
They both turn to the third and ask him what he's in for.
PugJesus sighs.
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That's because you can't plan an economy from the top. Democratic, bottom-up plan, with help of modern computing, can work
9But western economy is planned from the top down. The illusion of choice doesn't change the economy.
The only difference is how you measure success. And understanding, no countries truly have free market systems, bcs that's not sustainable by design/logic.
And that one side always points out the flaws of the other side whilst hiding the exact same flaws at home, quietly omitting it from the records, ever already well known things.
2I mean, you can plan it from the top-down, it's just... not all that efficient.
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To be fair, the Soviet Union did all those things long before the climate was a concern.
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Climate concerns have been around in academia since at least the turn of the century, but have been in the public consciousness in the West since the 60s.
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"Oops I drained an entire sea to grow cotton" probably has a common sense component to it that would suggest "Maybe this is a bad thing to do in the long term for the people living here"
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Major governments caring about climate is a recent development and politics often ignores academia until issues become critical.
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Learning these things often happens in hindsight. They almost certainly thought it would work out in the long run.
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Dumb it down for us in the back seats pls
2"Bad environmental things happen when the people in charge of industry don't have to answer to the people who are actually going to get screwed."
6Merci!
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There's a saying in Russia - If a man from Norilsk gets sick put his head next to a car exhaust (to fix him)'.
0Ok so first of all how dare you
-2It's cute that you think the current system is accountable.
-6Man, I think nothing of the sort. Hence the ongoing environmental catastrophes we're all focused on.
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