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by throwaway290 684 days ago
Dunno much about the Amish. Communism was (in practice a power grab, but in theory) very much in favor of automation. Hyping LLM training without licensing original works and calling for banning copyright and patents is what reminds me of communism a lot these days. I saw someone call it "IP communism". Let's see how well it works for innovation;)

I am not against automation too. We all used autocomplete. But it is amusing to see people sawing off the branch on which they sit, encouraging each other to do so and spitting on people who point it out.

I don't believe in communism and I think anarchocapitalism is maybe as bad as communism.

> Certifications are consumer protection.

If you think certifications are just consumer protection then you are missing big part of the picture. In the end it is protection for every side.
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ben_w 684 days ago
I've only seen half the stuff you're calling "IP communism", but many are inspired by the "fully automated luxury gay space communism" meme, so sure :)

> I don't believe in communism and I think anarchocapitalism is maybe as bad as communism.

I've met both, and yup; though the communists seemed more sociable, neither could really understand that the other existed except as caricature.

> If you think certifications are just consumer protection then you are missing big part of the picture.

I was unsure if I should have written "also" in that sentence; but I didn't write "just" ;)

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throwaway290 684 days ago
> fully automated luxury gay space communism

Thanks, TIL!

Communists may be sociable but being a Russian I don't have a good impression from the ideology.

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ben_w 684 days ago
Ah, understood :)

FWIW, I'm fairly sure the communists I know have a blind spot for all the failures of communist governments and not just the USSR's failures, they put Marx on a pedestal and insist the evidence to the contrary doesn't count somehow.

As I see equivalent blind spots in anarchocapitalism (any example of bad outcomes is dismissed as "not real free market"), that's why I don't think either communism or anarchocapitalism works.

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