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You've setup a strawman to argue against. Few people think that extreme is a good idea. History has proven that it does not scale well and is considerably less efficient at allocating resources than capitalism. It's also highly prone to corruption because the power is concentrated at the top, which is ironically exactly the same problem that capitalism has, even though those communist systems were built to solve the problems of capitalism.

In this US any talk about redistributing wealth will have your policy (and you) branded as a socialist.



An option besides socialism though that looks interesting is the Venus Project, or Resource Based Economy -- where all goods and services are available to all people without the need for money, credits, barter or any other means.


>Few people think that extreme is a good idea

Unfortunately people has short memory. In the last elections here in Spain more people than ever voted far-left parties, including supporters of terrorist groups. Just the coalition between communists (Unidos Podemos) received more than 5 million votes.

Even convicted terrorists from ETA, and Terra Lliure won their seats.

Sadly, far-left and far-right populism is going up in Europe.




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