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Re:The Ideal Economy by baybal2 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:40AM (#28895438)
> Parasitism is a very convenient life style once you adopt to it, and very hard to abandon even if you wish to.

100% agree, look no further than current communist, and ex-communist countries.

Even ones which succesfully "decommunized" still have that ex-party member class which still lives off fraud, and economic crimes 30 years after.

Re:The Ideal Economy by shitloadofbooks on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:24AM (#28895677)
I think you're forgetting (or deliberately ignoring) all the great political and economic frauds that have happened in capitalist systems too.

I don't think any political/economical/social system can ever be immune to fraud and sociopaths.

Re:The Ideal Economy by rc2634 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:09AM (#28896547)
It’s true that fraud and corruption will always exist but it’s also true that it’s less prevalent in a capitalist system because it’s more (not completely) transparent than any other system that has been tried by humans so far.
Re:The Ideal Economy by bserge on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:15AM (#28895614)
You actually think the political class is not full of thieves anywhere else?

It's a career path that attracts this kind of people, like flies to shit.

Re:The Ideal Economy by baybal2 on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:40AM (#28895746)
I am calling countries in which communists are no longer the political class, but even when turned into a social underlayer class, these fellows, and their offspring, or even their grandchildren cannot vean themselves off economic parasitism, and economic crime.

They are becoming a multigenerational class living off economic crime.

Re:The Ideal Economy by kelseyfrog on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:11AM (#28896562)
I can't help but laugh because your last line perfectly describes inheritance, a practice whose abolishment was demanded in The Communist Manifesto.
Re:The Ideal Economy by bserge on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:26AM (#28895968)
Yeah, I often hate doctors myself. Doesn't mean the majority are bad.