Automation makes full employment detrimental if not outright impossible.
Say before tractors it took 100 men to farm enough for 1000 people.
With tractors 20 men can farm for 1000.
With automation 1 man can farm for 1000 if not significantly more.
Open Source Robo Communism is the way to go imo. Sure a handful of engineers have to maintain the robots, and build new ones. And a few jobs will remain human only.
But we could easily get to 80% of the population being free to make art and dance
Glazing? I stated an historical fact. What doesn't math for me is why we care so much what kind of economy other people decide to have. Eastern Europe isn't soviet anymore obviously. They can make their own choices.
We kill people all the time, what's the difference? Isn't it a sovereign nation's prerogative to do whatever they want? That said, it is our prerogative to be nosy and violently mess with other people's affairs too so..
The Iron Curtain was a real thing, as was the Berlin Wall. Successful social and economic systems do not need to execute their own citizens for attempting to escape.
By what metrics? Life expectancy rose during communism and fell afterwords. Are you seriously going to try and argue it was better during the Czarist times?
Russia lost nearly 2 decades of development post-WWI. And had a widespread hunger in 1930-s with 4-8 million people dead (we _still_ don't know the accurate number).
Even just looking at the industrial growth rates, the socialistic economy of the USSR was inferior to many capitalistic economies starting from the same base. E.g. South Korea or Japan.
You are willfully missing the point. You can’t compare Russia to South Korea to claim communism bad. Russia has and will screw up every system it tries. You need to compare communist Russia to capitalist Russia. There the comparison looks much less favorable.
Also your graph proves my point. The giant drop in life expectancy is when it transitioned from communism to capitalism.
> You are willfully missing the point. You can’t compare Russia to South Korea to claim communism bad.
Why? I absolutely can. DPRK vs South Korea is an even better example.
> Also your graph proves my point. The giant drop in life expectancy is when it transitioned from communism to capitalism.
Well, duh. And capitalism _swiftly_ outpaced the previous rate. As somebody who experienced Soviet dentistry and medicine first-hand, I'm not at all surprised.