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Is Communism good?
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Yes 375 66.25%
No 191 33.75%
Total: 523 votes
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Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi
The money system is typically simultaneously extremely efficacious (capable) and extremely inefficient (wasteful) at utilizing resources. This is a tradeoff. Periodically, the money system stops being even efficacious due to a recession.

It's so loving stupid. 5 days before a recession, roads, factories, stores, consumers, resource gathering, etc etc all proceed at a steady reasonable pace. 5 days after a recession, all this activity grinds to a halt. Why? Did we run out of factories? labor? grain? steel? roads? No, we ran out of money. Money isn't a necessary part of the production of any good or service, it's only a signaling device. If you have a signaling device that works OK at best and totally fucks right out about 1/8 to 1/2 of the time, maybe your signaling system sucks.

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Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi

Money is used to coordinate production in a market economy. Money has unacceptably variable efficacy in coordination of production. (implied - communism is therefore good.)

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