• nexguy@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The truth is the opposite. A concentration of small government power is an incentive for those who seek power(as these types of humans will always exist). Processes are inefficient and slow incentivizing bribes(greed will always exist). A lack of incentive to innovate promotes stagnation and complacency(lazy acceptance of an internal takover).

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      15 hours ago

      A concentration of small government power

      You aren’t describing what socialism is as you have no idea what it is.

      Processes are inefficient and slow incentivizing bribes(greed will always exist).

      You keep bringing up greed. Capitalism doesn’t account for greed, it is built on it. It doesn’t stop greed from being abused, instead it rewards greed by allowing the few to hoard property and wealth which leads to those few holding more and more power and influence. Capitalism is literally designed like a pyramid scheme which everyone agrees is bad and doesn’t work.

      Socialism is the idea that if you work at a workplace you own it along with everyone else there. It’s the idea that if you live in a home you own it with the other people that live there. It’s the idea that we all own the roads and parks together. It’s the idea that decision making (political power) and property is shared. There are centralized ways to do this, and decentralized ways to do this. The states you think are communist are shitty little oligarchies that pretend they will implement communism in the future yet never do. The problem with these states is that they aren’t socialist, not that socialism is bad.

      A lack of incentive to innovate promotes stagnation and complacency(lazy acceptance of an internal takover).

      Most scientific advances are state sponsored.

      Hostile takeover is a thing that happens regularly in capitalism. Also liberals are always the first to compromise and then form governments with fascists. So that’s more of a capitalism thing I think.

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          14 hours ago

          Socialism is built on the idea that we are better at enforcing our rights together, not on putting anyone else above yourself. I have no idea where this notion comes from. Again, you people have no idea what socialism is.

          Almost every single good thing that has happened in the west has been achieved through unions and socialist or socially democratic parties. It hasn’t been achieved by liberals or conservatives.