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Any real-world examples of a society structured this way?

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They won’t be able to provide any larger than a few hundred people because those systems are extremely vulnerable to malicious actors.

Communism and anarchy work for small groups where people know and trust each other and are able to compromise.

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I think it’s more that people are profoundly emotionally uneducated which leaves them open to social exploitation.

In the US, children are legally their parents’ property and are a type of slave class. If you are groomed to be a slave your entire formative years, don’t you think this will make you accept controlling fascists? Probably if we worked on communicating what abuse is and worked on community itself, bad faith actors would have a harder time. We know this because the US dissolving their communities for capital has made the country weak and uneducated.

You asked if there are real life examples of community - it’s so silly because it’s everywhere. Humans are naturally social. It’s capitalism that is new and rare, looking at human history. Please remember that capitalism isn’t a synonym for trade or economy.

There’s a reason capitalism favors psychopaths and abusive people. Anyone who’s lived with such people knows that’s not sustainable. Living with people who are emotionally mature is much better and more sustainable, and less likely to receive reactive violence.

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Even educated people are vulnerable to misinformation on topics for which they are not experts, and propaganda is a numbers game. Socialism is a better scaling economic system because it basically creates a lot of small communities (workers who own the company). Democracy scales better than anarchy because it creates a system for the decision making of anarchy that wouldn’t be possible for more than a few hundred people. Both also have downsides, but handle scaling issues better than the other options.

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