Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)

Re:Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2... by nordsieck on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:42PM (#23742754)

> That's how US destroyed USSR.

Your arrow of causation is pointing in the wrong direction.

At the time, intellectuals in the US believed (and many still believe) that Communism(or whatever you call the economic system that was practiced in the USSR) is the superior economic system.

The USSR rotted from within due to fundamental economic problems like the principal agent problem[1] and the economic calculation problem[2].

The US didn't really have much to do with it, with the possible exception of "forcing" the USSR to spend a lot of resources it didn't have on weapons and space flight.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

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Re:Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2... by oh_sigh on Sunday July 05, 2020 @06:56PM (#23742841)

You're conflating "intellectuals" with "academic professors". Communism has been quite popular with college-bound academics for a long time, especially in professors in non-STEM fields, and especially in professors teaching undergrads. But the popularity wanes as people move away from college campuses and into other sectors.

In any other instance, if you described a certain adult as a person who, as they got older, continually hung out with 18-21 year olds, that fact would lend less credence to their viewpoints, not more.

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