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RE: 100 DAYS OF STEEM : Day 35 - Delegations for Community Leaders
Communities leaders
Communities can add another level of richness and diversity to Steem as a social network platform.
This is sounding like a political speech from the left...(eli powell is a full on lefty)
Makes me want to leave steem, hearing this stuff.
(Pssstt..leftism is dying, if not soon to be dead. Media outlets promoting leftism are dying also -Check if you don't believe me -... Platforms actively using this old fashioned, lefty terminology/word salad, may well soon follow. Just sayin')
What do you consider leftism? I think universal health care, free education and a working social security system which ensures everyone has a pension for their old age is not only necessary it is a right worth fighting for. Is this leftism? Because frankly nobody says what it is they just use the word like a Bogey Man. Now let's go to capitalism, do you think it is right that someone like Jeff Bezos can feed one million people every day and still his fortune would increase at the end of the year? I say tax them hard, nobody needs the kind of money they have. And most millionaires and billionaires. don't even make their money that honestly.
There is no capitalism. There is cronyism, corporatism,etc. (crapitalism)
(hence the bezo, gates, etc).
You can't have capitalism with central banking. Is mathematically impossible.(money supply and interest rates are not price discovery related).
Leftism is 'legalized theft'. (taxation by coercion)
But all are thieves that is why I want to know what exactly defines leftism to you, just legalized theft is not a suitable definition. I already told you what I expect from a government, beyond that a government is useless to me. Well it it is needed when you think of infrastructure, somebody has to have a managing hand there. I have seen people here responding to being anarcho-capitalists, this is impossible, you are one or the other you can't be both. Anarchy is no government, a laudable ideal, but hardly reachable.
Leftism = authoritarianism.
Right = authoritarianism.
Bureaucracies justify there own existence,by growing - and extracting more and more wealth from the producers as they do(us).
Leftism promotes bureaucracy.
Leftism necessitates more and more bureaucracy to administrate the self perpetuating offices that grow or die.(as is obvious to see over all modern countries)
Anarchy doesn't mean no government, it means no rulers.
A subtle difference - in the same way a creek is the same as the grand canyon, kinda subtle.
People get things done, not governments. (excluding wars and imperialism)
Organizing is not the same as being governed and taxed.
Accepting that 'all are thieves' is accepting being robbed. I do not accept that as a preferable state of affairs.
Leftism, and the right, are authoritarians.
So, what is your solution? First you have to get rid of nationalism, you have to get rid of borders, world wide, then you have to have people work as a Kibbutz works in Israel, collectively and for the benefit of all, sounds like a very organized form of socialism. So I think it is not socialism or communism you don't like, your dislike is for totalitarianism, which is about the only type of government the world has seen. Somebody told me in the Scandinavian countries this is being phased out, but I have no way of knowing as I have never been there.
Socialism is cancer. For society, for individuals, for everyone.
National borders are a great idea - it's decentralization in action.
The structure of _government is the problem.
When 20-50% of your taxable income is spent of killing women and children in some other country, and you have zero say in it,the bureaucracies are out of control.
Decentralization is the key. Smaller and smaller borders are a natural function this.
(state autonomy for example with the exception of a nations borders, threat).
There is no perfect answer, as society is in constant flux.
Authoritarianism (the extreme being totalitarianism) is no answer.