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Yes. True socialism (aka communism) is like a product created by a founder without user testing.

The product sounds really really good in the pitch, even good enough to dupe lots of investors! However after launch you realize it was designed without taking into account the real as opposed to the hypothetical behavior of users.

Your users (humans as a whole) have shown after thousands of years of user testing that we demand power gamification so much--we will even find ways to create it inside systems designed to be without it (to extreme negative affect if the system wasn't designed to contain it).

Hence why every thriving country today is the result of employing some level of market economics in its system.




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