Yes that would be lovely, until then though?

“You’re not allowed to criticize the status quo unless your solution can be done instantaneously”

because Reddit doesn’t think anyone should have a car?

This is a strawman argument

I envision walkable communities

Where’s the “I just stuck my cock in the macaroni salad at a publex deli” gas?

To be fair, it’s exactly the sort of tone deaf thing they’d do.

The inverse of this should also be true. Just because my game occasionally takes a minute to get set up as I try one or two different versions of proton doesn’t mean I want to be told to switch to windows so I can get my data mined further.

But also once you get to the office it’s all just hotel cubes with insufficient conference space. So everyone will still do their meetings virtually on teams, but now with extra steps.

Fuck.

Surely the economic wellbeing of your average citizen can’t get worse over time and therefore be a “lately” thing. It’s not like food, housing, and healthcare are getting more expensive.

Reality is worse than this picture though. The landlords are contributing to all thkse knives and grenades, intentionally.

But everyone hot (I would not want to forget)

Every day I find a new reason to hate this country.

This is more idealist than materialist. “Power” isn’t a real substance, it has no ability to “corrupt” people or turn them “evil.”

But you are suggesting we create organization structures with authority over others. Immeasurable or not, it has an effect on human behavior which cannot just be ignored.

People act in their own interests, and in capitalism profit is the driving factor. The capitalists at the top are the ones that best get the most profits by any means necessary, so the ones at the top are typically more morally bankrupt. It wasn’t that power corrupted them, but capitalism as a system selected for them.

And police organizations select for those who enjoy (or are at a bare minimum comfortable with) having power over others. The same goes for government structures.

That isn’t to say corruption doesn’t exist in socialism, it absolutely does, but that isn’t because of metaphysical powers of corruption.

I never said anything about this being a metaphysical effect. This is an effect in relation to human behavior, organization, and economic structure.

Further, as Dessalines said, socialist planning and administration is more collectivized, both by intention and by necessity. You physically couldn’t have a single person, or elite few, making all of the decisions in socialist society.

As I told Dessalines, it doesn’t have to be one person. A council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.

I’m not exactly sure what the question is, but if its that “power always corrupts”, this might be true for capitalist countries, which allow private ownership of capital, and creates a system that encourages and incentivizes accumulation of power.

I haven’t posed a question. And what I am trying to get at is that power itself incentivizes accumulation and retention of power.

then no one person can accumulate that much power,

It doesn’t have to be one person, a council, committee, or other group of people can always be incentivized to retain and accumulate power.

but by the socialist state who commands them to protect the people. Socialist states are going to be receptive to accusations of abuses, because that means they’re harming the people.

The PRC regularly attacks citizens and journalists that criticize their government.

See my response to Cowbee

I agree with everything you’ve said, except for the last sentence.

The basis of the state is class struggle, so to eliminate it you eliminate class.

thus elements like police are necessary to keep the proletariat in control and capitalists oppressed

That is the main basis, but it is not the only one, and police are a good example of it. More often than not police enjoy the power that their position gives them. The job itself attracts people who enjoy having power over others, and that’s not strictly a mechanism of classes existing.

The state backs up their power, and so they are influenced to protect the existence of the state. Anybody who commands the police will see the police as an extension of their power and will be similarly influenced.

Power corrupts and makes people want to retain power.

Reversal:

communist: I’m all for ending this oppressive system, but only if we do it with a state that will wither away

anarchist: So… by magic?

If it’s a mom and pop store, then the right thing to do is notify them.

If it’s a corporation, fuck their soulless bullshit.

Kinda hard to build FTL tech on imagination instead of billions/trillions of dollars of research, insane skills in math, physics, etc.

Good thing it doesn’t need to be $20, the corporate middleman leeches just need cut out of the equation.