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   Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 11:38:41 JST Hoss Delgado

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   The Soviet Union wasn't a success by any measure, but a semi-free market economy with command economy elements remains an interesting idea to me. This is what China is doing, but it's hard to gauge the success when the CCP clearly isn't executing enough corrupt executives delivering pallets of sawdust bricks.
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     Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 11:38:42 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     @Griffith @deprecated_ii History has to an extent has vindicated the Soviet Union. The west is in a race to the bottom.
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     Griffith (griffith@5dollah.click)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 11:38:44 JST Griffith

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     @deprecated_ii communism doesn’t have this problem, unironically. It’s why the Russians have no problem deploying T-55s while we destroyed our old stuff at the end of the Cold War. A 100mm gun is a 100mm gun. It just works.
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     d (deprecated_ii@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 11:38:45 JST d

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     this is why there are no solved problems in the west
     
     solved problems are not profitable. that's why whenever an effective medicine goes off patent, suddenly it's found dangerous and needs to be replaced with a new on-patent drug. the last thing they want is to compete with their past successes
     
     what's more, many people defend this behavior. of *course* they can't make a car that will last 2 million miles, they'd go out of business! we should instead perpetually waste industrial capacity on increasingly-disposable, fragile, and ever-more-expensive vehicles
     
     RT: https://poa.st/objects/26a11a32-126e-4ab0-8ce2-5b93db6e7ba9