Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?message-squaremessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down110
arrow-up1194arrow-down1message-squareELI5 What is the hate against socialism? I mean doesn't it mean a system where the people take care of themselves and neighbors?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·13 hours agoThe world has had enough resources for post-scarcity for decades, if not centuries. Before, the problem was logistics, now it’s will.
minus-squaredoben@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-26 hours agoOh it has always been will. Let‘s not pretend like capitalism has the better logistics and therefore a better world wouldn‘t have been possible sooner. That’s only romanticizing capitalism.
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI’m talking about methods of transport and storage. Food isn’t likely to rot before it gets where it’s going, like it was a couple hundred years ago.
The world has had enough resources for post-scarcity for decades, if not centuries. Before, the problem was logistics, now it’s will.
Oh it has always been will. Let‘s not pretend like capitalism has the better logistics and therefore a better world wouldn‘t have been possible sooner. That’s only romanticizing capitalism.
I’m talking about methods of transport and storage. Food isn’t likely to rot before it gets where it’s going, like it was a couple hundred years ago.