[throwup238]

> Your claim is that the number 5 is cursed because it is a communist number?

That’s your own nonsensical strawman, not mine. Who in their sane mind would stoop to such silly numerology? That sounds positively medieval.

What were you even thinking when you wrote your reply? You’re going to really have to unpack your thought process for me to understand what you said.

[exe34]

no, you need to explain why you thought the Soviet connection was important enough to mention. you could have said you agreed with the number or you thought it was too high for reasons or too low for reasons.

[throwup238]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_...

[Nevermark]

5 years is very specific.

Its origin is important to know, to interpret that specificity. Did Feynman derive five years for innovations. No? Does the Chinese calendar have five years per “year week”? No.

So where did “5” come from? The Soviet Union.

Now questions about how well 5 years works can focus on historical successes and failures, instead of “where the heck did that number come from?”.

[exe34]

Do you know by any chance if the Chinese have 5 fingers on each hand? Is the number 5 forever tied to the Soviet Union and must never be used in economics again?

[Nevermark]

Are you proposing that having five fingers completely explains why they chose five years for their plans? Despite five being a number so common, it has innumerable associations beyond our hands?

Ok. Well don't be coy, show your work.

[exe34]

Western companies also have five year plans. The British parliament runs on a five year cycle. Are you suggesting we are all communists?

[mrmlz]

The number is not what is relevant in his comment.

[exe34]

If it were 6, they wouldn't have brought up the Soviet Union.

[dleary]

> no, you need to explain why you thought

What kind of purity test bullshit rhetoric are you using here? Whenever you find yourself saying, “you need to explain yourself”, step back and question things.

Have you tried reading the thread instead of jumping on a guy for wrongspeak?

The Soviet connection is really not that hard to follow. They were discussing development cycles. Whether China, which is a communist country with a “5 year economic plan”, is successful due to that 5 year plan.

So it’s very relevant to mention the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a communist country, it “invented” the 5 year economic plan, and it failed spectacularly.