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  • Eh, I feel like horizontal decentralised planning would work better, where people tell what their needs are and the day-to-day administration (which is tasked with exclusively doing that task, and cannot increase its power) then does so.

    For example, take a small town somewhere. It has no bus stops, schools, or such.

    Under capitalism, flight would continue; the doctor leaves, and even the grocery store too; and we get a ghost town eventually.

    Under central planning or a mixed-market economy, the flight would mostly be halted. But this comes at the cost of a lack of input and choice. It is up to the central committees whether the town can continue to exist, or not.

    Under decentralised planning such as in anarchocommunism, however, people give their direct input to what they need, and in return the administration must act accordingly. Thus a bus stop might be built; a school, and so on.





  • And if you worked from 16 til retirement (67 ish in more and more countries), 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, having a few weeks off…

    and earnt $1,000,000 (1 million) an hour – you’d still not have earnt 1/3rd of what Musk has.

    For comparison, most in “rich” countries, earn $15-60 an hour.

    The truly rich countries are those where the wage slave system as a concept is entirely abolished, in favour of a gift economy.

    Richness is measured not in dollars, euros, or even renminbi; but in the availability of basic needs such as food, water, housing, education, and a healthy environment.