• flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Ill be the patsy: You can’t make rules to eliminate human greed / lust for power?

    I’m very simplistic with this stuff and haven’t studied it, but that seems to be the fundamental limitation with communism. Would work great with robots but we’re more ‘complex’ with our subconscious bias, unexamined motives and insecurities driving our actions.

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      5 hours ago

      I read a Chinese visual novel where society actual DID manage to eradicate humanity’s greed/lust for power.

      The biggest issue with the depicted society is that people live out their lives in ways deemed safe by the state. No one who lives in the society sees any problem with this, since their needs are cared for, and they’re allowed to freely pursue interests the state considers safe. The society determined that any culture that existed before their rise to power has to be destroyed or locked up - introduction of such items can have a majorly destabilizing effect, and bring greed/lust for power back.