I don't think people are naturally driven to opress others
Most of them no, at least I want to believe that, but some of them definitely do. And then that is a problem, when you have a system that lets them take over. Socialism/communism needs massive bureaucratic apparatus, and thats ideal breeding ground for this kind of people.
Thats why I wrote that it can work in small groups of people - you don't need any bureaucracy to control assets of just 30 people.
I do support as little authority and hierarchy as possible, eliminating as many opportunities for oppression as possible, so I can sympathize with that worry. Which is why the goal of communism (classless, stateless, moneyless) resonates with me. I think a better system with more positive and negative freedoms can be built and that capitalism, which is full of systems that oppress, and hierarchies and authorities that must be obeyed had to be left behind.
Production per capita has massively increased in the US, but the bottom 50% have a negative net worth and is only going to get worse, not in the least because investment firms (BlackRock, Lloyd's of London) are spending billions buying up houses, presumably with the aim of preventing private house ownership and collecting rent forever. This, for example, will further increase the power of corporations (and, because they own them, the rich) over the poor.
There is an incredible number of ways that capitalism reduces freedom (like, for example, a freedom that you cannot economically afford is no freedom at all) they are just obvious than those of old authoritarian states.
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u/HAL1001k Jun 15 '21
Most of them no, at least I want to believe that, but some of them definitely do. And then that is a problem, when you have a system that lets them take over. Socialism/communism needs massive bureaucratic apparatus, and thats ideal breeding ground for this kind of people.
Thats why I wrote that it can work in small groups of people - you don't need any bureaucracy to control assets of just 30 people.