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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They took more than was fair, so it wouldn’t be fair.

    Group ownership of a resource isn’t in conflict with controlling the resource, or having laws and practices to determine how it’s used.

    Kinda like how we all own Yellowstone park, but no one is free to bottle and carry off all the water from old faithful.

    • FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      So do you think it’s fair for a group of people to raid a farm and pick what they haven’t contributed to growing as long as they take just enough to feed themselves, piggybacking off the work of the farmer? Why should the farmer agree to this?

      Edit: rewrote the question to satisfy people who think asking questions about is somehow combative.

        • FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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          Do you have anything to contribute? I’m trying to have an actual discussion about policy.

          I think the profit incentive is important in maximising yield, do you have anything to add to this as to why I may be wrong? Or are you just going to signal me as an other so that others just switch off and get defensive.

          I think it’s kind of ironic that some claim to want the world to see things from their point of view but then immediately attack those who question their views or try to understand. This just suggests to me you’re more about signalling to your in group than growth in ideas and discussion.

          • the_q@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            What’s to discuss? We live in a society that you’re describing and it’s awful for most people. You defeated yourself.

            • FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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              There is a lot to discuss. I’m discussing about why I think communal style living/economics don’t scale well. You think it does, there are reasons we both have our opinions and maybe we could actually learn from each other rather than you viewing me as someone to be defeated.

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                1 year ago

                You’re wrong though. You’re saying the way it isn’t can’t work while living the way you’re describing and it not working. No discussion is needed.

                • FastAndBulbous@lemmy.world
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                  You need to define what you mean by not working.

                  Of course discussion is needed. How else do you expand your mind and thoughts without discussing things? I don’t take your views as being inherently true in much the same way you don’t take mine, that’s healthy and normal.

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                    1 year ago

                    Inequality, poverty, starvation, suffering, war… C’mon, man. These are issues that don’t need to exist, but do so in order to keep certain people in power. It’s all part of the machine.

                    You don’t need to discuss whether the sky appears blue because we know how sunlight interacts with our atmosphere. The same is true for this issue.