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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
As intended it can be found practiced in small-scale communities e. g. large families, small tribes or rural communities: all members put in and take out from one big ressource base of goods money and worktime. All adults decide
As perverted trough large re-scaling it: leads to what "Animal Farm" shows in a nutshell. (ruling 'committees' decide what and how much of it is 'best' for the rest and are of course! more equal than the others)
I remember the ration cards ma had to use and how long she stood in queues (meat, milk, sugar, sweets, accohol, tobacco, flour, + pretty everything) unavailability of practically everything; police state;... I might have been a kiddo while I lived in Poland in these times. But I was neither blind nor deaf.
Since gigs clearly advocates the 2nd flavour of communism (I still see his book commisioners saluting) And IS of course more equal than the others (how's the amazon account doing, eh?) take your pigck on what my opinion about him might be. The argument that he wants to screw "only" the producers of art doesn't matter. It is the tune that alerts me not the instrument he chooses to play it on.
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I think you might be taking the short view.
If anything the network has allowed a near infinite number of artists to distribute their works to a near infinite audience. Why should we then hinder this distribution?? You cannot put forth the fallistic notion of non-creation incentives.