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RE: No true communist,...

in #anarchylibrary • 9 years ago

I believe that the reason small communes worked best historically and even in some modern theoretical models is due in part to the reasons you listed, but also due in part to the scarcity myth that often forces competition where none needs exist. Of course as freebornangel mentioned and linked, the attacks on what otherwise could have been successful attempts are always a factor.

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     9 years ago 

    Before the advent of the big box stores distribution was toooo decentralized for this proposal to be adopted.
    We would have had to reach millions of small business owners and convince them to take a chance.
    Today we just co-opt a structure that is already there and cause it to serve the masses rather than the few oligarchs.

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    I wonder if the scarcity mindset has more to do with:

    1. We remember things being scarce. (A chicken in ever pot and a car in every garage was not that long ago)
    2. Currency is designed to be scarce. There is always more debt then there is bank notes.
    3. Advertising to have to want it now, because "Sale ends tomorrow". Got to keep selling, or no one gets a pay check. Planned obsolescence.

    Whichever it is, it definitely has a hold on the people.
    If we ever move from burning stuff for electricity to all forms of sustainable generation, what will that do to the scarcity mentality? Or is the scarcity mentality keeping the old electric company in place?