[ryan93]

Why don't you provide that service profit free then. People on this stuff are always all talk. Id be interested in people demonstrating a world with no profit on a smaller scale first. Why not run a company where every one gets paid the same and demonstrate your competence.

[kelseyfrog]

This is a great chance to exercise curiosity rather being dismissive.

[memefrog]

Why would anyone want to "exercise curiosity" about abject nonsense? There's nothing to be curious about here. You might as well make the same comment on any topic where something has been dismissed. The concept of "every human need" (whatever a "need" is, given that anatomically modern humans lived without electricity for hundreds of thousands of years just fine) necessarily being provided without any profit motive is just plain stupid. It's being dismissed for that reason.

[forgetfreeman]

What is "stupid", or even controversial, about the idea that society should be organized to provide for people's needs? To suggest that society should be a zero sum economic gladiatorial affair, that that's the best our species can do or should strive for, seems like a failure of imagination to me.

[kelseyfrog]

Because it's part of the site guidelines[1].

> Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

People who don't follow the guidelines make HN a worse place.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html