• zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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    7 hours ago

    Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

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        7 hours ago

        The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

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            3 hours ago

            Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn’t mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

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              3 hours ago

              It’s not about being temporary, production becomes so complicated and wide-reaching that it must become planned and publicly owned.