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Re:Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from f... by llbbdd on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:45AM (#45124302)
They have demonstrably not - they have generally failed until introducing capitalism-eseque cooperation. "They fail when they're mismanaged, privatized, or stripped of the social fabric that sustains them" - yes, these are obvious natural consequences of scale.
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Re:Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from f... by komali2 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @05:14AM (#45125232)
Not really. It didn't happen in syndicalized Spain. It didn't happen for millennia in ancient cities.

Scale being necessary seems to be unique to capitalism and state capitalism (Marxist industrialization requirements).

Maybe it was necessary before, I don't know but it's moot. We certainly have achieved post scarcity now and there should be no issues leveraging the tools our ancestors have given us to ensure it's distributed well.

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Re:Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from f... by ToucanLoucan on Thursday September 04, 2025 @09:58AM (#45127363)
Yeah but that would make all the people who are rich because they own things very sad, so instead we're just gonna starve shitloads of people to death next to piles of food daily and call it rational.
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