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by ihatepython 1161 days ago
> I wouldn’t also believe that the new system being imposed would both retain the existing system and specific assignment of property rights. That’s just a weirdly calibrated level of trust in the government that the scenario is otherwise so paranoid about.

It would be more like a return to feudalism, which was the system in place before capitalism. The barter system becomes relevant again.