• @Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    -417 hours ago

    But it’s not like companies or business entities won’t have folks in charge of them under communism… Someone has to run the whatevers…

    • @SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
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      1016 hours ago

      But it’s also not like the person who runs the whatevers has to be beholden to shareholders and profits. They could instead be incentivized to prioritize the collective well being of the workers.

      And for that matter, politicians and the bureaucracy also live in a system that incentivizes (to the tune of millions in bribes) them to prioritize the interests of businesses owners, and thusly shareholders and profits, at the cost of the common good. Which is a major reason they can’t be trusted.

      • @Lauchs@lemmy.world
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        -415 hours ago

        Or, as has happened in capitalism, people will find ways to bend the system to benefit themselves. Except this time without boards so much as bribable officials and whatnot.

        • Capitalism is explicitly designed for people to benefit themselves at the expense of others. Capital begets more capital in a positive feedback loop that results in massively powerful billionaires.

          If you elect representatives, those representatives are checked somewhat by the threat of being voted out. Capitalism has no such check. Sure, ostensibly people can choose not to buy a product, but unregulated capitalism selects for monopolies.

        • @SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
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          And now we find ourselves at the beginning of the meme.

          Also, I find “people are greedy” to be an uncompelling reason to support a system that incentivizes greed and exploitation. If people bending a system to benefit themselves is a problem, then the system should be designed to be resistant to this, in a way that incentivizes promoting the common good. Or at the very least shouldn’t encourage these problems.

          Capitalism encourages these problems.

    • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      216 hours ago

      Ideally, supervision over most non critical sectors would fall to randomly drafted, single term committees of the people, think jury duty except better compensated and obviously with bureaucratic resources available to enable these committees to fulfil their role adequately.

      Now this isn’t suited for everything, but in either system any true oversight is done by the people, not the state.