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Re:Ask HN: Do you have the courage to abandon your high payi... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:10AM (#16800228)
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

I thought we had got past the idea of collectivism, it just doesn't work.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you have the courage to abandon your high payi... by mykull on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:01AM (#16808436)
Little is more naive than the broad claim "collectivism doesn't work" because the USSR and other states tried some form of it and failed.

Even if you are willing to massively oversimplify things and look at the cold war and all the real-politik business of the last century as a fair contest between the ideas of collectivism and capitalism, "which system wins in a war" is not exactly the same thing as "which system maximizes prosperity." Nor are we actually limited to picking between the two.

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