I'm a minnow here.
I was just flagged by a self-avowed communist, for explaining the dynamics of free markets vs collectivism.
Many of the people here are not even hiding the fact that they are advocating communism.
There is the idea that I see, over and over, that decentralization equals forced redistribution of power and wealth.
It does not.
This has failed everywhere, every time it has been tried.
Combined with statism, it usually ends in economic depression, oppression, repression and continent sized piles of bodies.
Let me be clear, i don't think anyone is going to die here.
However, every time these collectivist levelers start taking from the successful, who earned what they have by creation of value, and give it to people who did nothing for it, it takes away the incentive of the successful to create more value, because they are just going to have it taken away.
It also takes away the incentive of the people who don't create anything, to do so,
because they can just get stuff for free by sitting on their butts doing nothing.
This is the basic dynamic.
It destroys everything it touches, every time.
Free markets have imbalances.
They are still better than communism.
They produce cool stuff.
Isn't it funny how some can sit in front of their shiny computers or fondle slabs or smart phones, which market freedoms produced, and advocate an ideology that could never invent anything like?
Sure, the crony crapitalists step in and sell off the industrial base to communist countries, but the communists here keep paying them to do it.
Crony crapitalism is not a free market either.
Someone should make a communist social media site just to demonstrate the principles.
Every post would have to be approved by the central committee.
Everything would be censored down to homogenized drivel.
All payouts would be 1 cent a month and everyone would get them, if they weren't found to be enemy of state.
Commissars would come to your neighborhood terminal and check to make sure you were creating approved amount of content.
You would have to line up around block and wait 12 hours to access terminal, to produce required amount of content.
We could call it:
DigitalGulag,
It would break down and nobody would fix. It would be short, painful experiment.
There is a long history of this being tried repeatedly.
It fails, every time.
I am not a monarchist. I don't believe in oligarchy. I am not a crony crapitalist. I love steemit because here I am free, or so I thought.
Not just communists, but all tyrants, authoritarians, totalitarians, all people addicted to control, they always abuse the flag to impose their will upon you. Resist!