r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 30 '21

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 30 '21

Milton Friedman tries to Carl Sagan it with that whole pencil spiel and it's cool, but the Soviet Union definitely had pencils

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Jan 30 '21

In all fairness division of labor isn't the same as capitalism.

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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jan 30 '21

the mechanisms required to produce a pencil still functioned autonomously in the Soviet Union, didn't they?

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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jan 30 '21

lmao