Post by J***@.Post by Mr. B1ack" I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed himself
and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice.
I do not consider his methods practical,
but one thing is certain: men of his type
are the guardians and restorers of humanity. "
Wikipedia.ORG/wiki/Political_views_of_Albert_Einstein
Socialism and most especially Marxism require ... well ...
some kind of species other than human if they're gonna
work smoothly. Seems that when humans don't think
feel or act like they're "supposed to" - that's when
the whips and guns come out to MAKE them be happy
little collectivists campers.
Maybe tomorrows robots will be Marxists ...
Suicides, homicides, homelessness and war are bad PTSD/pain management.
Heroin and OxyContin were sold as safe opiates -- they aren't.
Likewise, communism is not a safe opiate/religon.
What's sci.physics have to do with any of this ?
Well, I'm not a 'drug war' person ... so I'll let people TRY
"communism" - so long as they keep it to themselves.
The hippie-dippies tried it in the 60s. Didn't work out
very well. Reality and Darwin's animal conspired to
ruin it for them.
Of course there were a few troublemakers who blamed
the SCALE of the experiments ... it'd all work out just
perfectly if *everyone* had a gun put to their heads so
they'd be good little commies .........
Those are the ones to worry about.
Post by J***@.Everyone has a theory, no one has a solution.
What, a sociopolitical or theosociological theory ?
I call them "idiot-ologies". Make up a few "Truths"
and then do a lot of chain logic with them to "prove"
your theory. Trouble is that almost everything to do
with humans is terribly subjective, the "Truths" are
worthless, just stuff humans would like. So, your
first links in the chain are defective and it just gets
worse from there.
Ya know what ... there ARE NO "solutions". What
we have are eight billion opinions of The Way Things
Ought To Be ... edited daily. There's no "solution"
to that, no equation.
What we CAN do though is create the Big Fudge ...
not "Truths", not "solutions" per-se but instead one
or two generously slack-filled social plans that
almost everybody can more-or-less tolerate for
a few years or decades. They won't be fixed, they
will evolve along with those eight billion opinions.
"Hey everybody, how do you feel about X, Y and Z
today hmm ?"
It's sloppy, it's kinda slippery, inefficient, sometimes
(maybe often) it'll contain errors - in short a perfect
match for a species that loves to believe six
impossible things before breakfast. But, in the short
term, it IS a "plan", a social blueprint, and at least
a usable degree of order and cooperation can exist.
Post by J***@.Cuba is wrong. North Korea is wrong.
Stop insisting that everyone "earns" the same income,
no matter his race, gender, age, competence, etc.
Meritocracy is the only practical guide ... for our
kind of animal anyhow. Anything else encourages
sloth, dependency, theft, maybe even slavery.
Post by J***@.We _need_ losers, lots of them;
it's how we progress -- we select the best.
It's sometimes useful to look at economics from
a thermodynamics viewpoint. For there to be work
done there HAS to be an energy (money) gradient.
Equal wealth = NO wealth = NO work to be done
because nobody has anything to offer.
Post by J***@.Stop pretending that we all need to drive Mercedes,
dropping off kids for soccer practice.
Mercedes .... no no ... anti-"green" ! :-)
Bicycles, umpteen million bicycles ... just like
Mao's China. That'll use up everybody's time
and energy ...
Post by J***@.Stop punishing sex workers and heroin addicts.
This ( my heavy hand ) is what you get, you degenerate.
People are kinda hardwired for dominance heirarchies,
like many species on the planet. We love it when there's
somebody we can step on, think we're *so* superior to.
"Superiority" can be anything ... money, family, locale,
skin tone, religion, whatever.
You can't forbid/prevent people from thinking like
that, but you CAN kinda take the wind out of their
sails before they become a bona-fide threat.
I've always been amused though by the haughty
self-superior women who brag about how they
lured Mr. Moneybags into marrying them .... and
yet do not consider themselves to be prostitutes.
Yer price may be higher or lower, but it's still the
same profession, same frame of mind :-)
[had to yank the linux group, sorry. however it's
pretty much the only os I've used for a decade,
even my newsreader is running under 'wine' :-) ]