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Re:AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain by creddit on Sunday July 04, 2021 @04:25PM (#27732338)
> but saying distribution is less important than production

This isn't something that I said. I said that distribution does not an economy make. I'm demonstrating the extremely limited value of calling Amazon or WalMart an economy by showing that they are not very close to what an economy is. An additional contrast that could be made is that Amazon and WalMart are generally doing extremely minimal investment as well.

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Re:AI and Communism: Narratives of AI Behind the Iron Curtain by suifbwish on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:01PM (#27732972)
Ok I missed where someone had called them economies. Agreed they are not. It’s interesting, the main reason why they exist is our society did not author a better system or one at all really. It’s always been assumed that capital gain is sufficient to ensure distribution.
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