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2026-04-17 18:55 UTC
@mralancooper I suspect the difference you're looking at might not be of scale, per se, but of the scope of the services needed.
Software, for now, is mostly facultative. It's okay if it helps somebody. But a properly functioning Communist societal infrastructure is supposed to help everybody, and potentially all the basic needs of some people.
Virtually all the everyday examples of small-scale communism resemble, not always but most of the time, the facultative model more than the model where high availability and reliability are paramount.
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-17 19:08
@mralancooper There's a somewhat similar difference between frontier capitalism and modern urban capitalism, as well, btw. Frontier capitalism used "if you have nothing to eat, you can go in the wilderness and hunt down some tasty animals" as a safety valve for certain kinds of failings of capitalism. But in contexts where all the available wilderness havsbeen successfully enclosed (or most of the tasty animals in it have already been eaten), it ceases being a functional failback mechanism, even though it's popular among some crappy politicians to pretend otherwise.