This is the first thing you learn as a Political Science student in university. The "science" half of the name is somewhat lacking when you can't experiment.
> We now know that Marxist type systems of the sorts deployed by Lenin and Mao don't actually result in a better world and in many cases result in a worse one
We don't know this. There's a lot more to economic security and human rights than private vs state control of production.
> We once had this in the American West, but no more, so we should hurry up and build more rockets.
While a frontier can provide some space for experimentation, redundancy is the real cure.
We haven't done this as a society though since there is an advantage to large scale when securing a nation's economy and currency with armed force.
The interesting new technology doesn't seem to be cheaper rockets but instead a new way to make sure our money is valued as we wish. Cryptocurrency's method of securing transactions against counterfeiters using math enables small-scale economies to operate without wasting too much resource on keeping order.
A system where cities/towns have more sovereignty would enable greater diversity and experimentation because a failure would be much easier to deal with.
Thousands of cities with each their own policies of how wealth spreads is the diverse dream I wish for as the world shrinks into fewer languages, customs, and ideas.
That's a nice dream, but I don't see how "keeping order" results from cryptocurrency ? Especially preventing cities from attacking other cities to take their resources...
> > We now know that Marxist type systems of the sorts deployed by Lenin and Mao don't actually result in a better world and in many cases result in a worse one
> We don't know this. There's a lot more to economic security and human rights than private vs state control of production.
We know that Marxism-Leninism didn't result in human rights, either. Neither did Maoism.
Sorry if that point was hazy. I'm in agreement with your comment but those implementations of national economies operating on Marxist principles were stifled greatly. WW2 caused much greater destruction of the USSR than the US. The US' anti-communist military actions, and economic blockades all existed because of a belief that allowing any communism ultimately leads its spreading everywhere.
A rephrasing would be: We don't know for sure that a Marxist type system does not work because we have so few examples. Maybe we just haven't tried enough variations to find a version that compiles cleanly.
This is the first thing you learn as a Political Science student in university. The "science" half of the name is somewhat lacking when you can't experiment.
> We now know that Marxist type systems of the sorts deployed by Lenin and Mao don't actually result in a better world and in many cases result in a worse one
We don't know this. There's a lot more to economic security and human rights than private vs state control of production.
> We once had this in the American West, but no more, so we should hurry up and build more rockets.
While a frontier can provide some space for experimentation, redundancy is the real cure.
We haven't done this as a society though since there is an advantage to large scale when securing a nation's economy and currency with armed force.
The interesting new technology doesn't seem to be cheaper rockets but instead a new way to make sure our money is valued as we wish. Cryptocurrency's method of securing transactions against counterfeiters using math enables small-scale economies to operate without wasting too much resource on keeping order.
A system where cities/towns have more sovereignty would enable greater diversity and experimentation because a failure would be much easier to deal with.
Thousands of cities with each their own policies of how wealth spreads is the diverse dream I wish for as the world shrinks into fewer languages, customs, and ideas.