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[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much every time someone offers an extreme as a solution it’s a case of “easy answers to hard problems”. The real optimal solution is almost always very nuanced, but dumb people just latch onto extremes because they’re easier to understand.

Take farming as an example. Under the Soviet Union it was a textbook communism command system, and it was insanely inefficient with massive food shortages. But conversely you don’t want it to be 100% privatized either because then it will devolve into a few mega monopolies that just grow cash crops like almonds which destroy the local ecosystems.

Ideally there would be a combination of private farmers with government oversight to prevent negative social externalities. But your average Fox News junkie or tankie doesn’t have the patience or rationality to understand that.

[+] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Schrodinger's Soviet Union, simultaneously starving AND eating better than Americans

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That... Is not what bleys said at all...

And hold on... Are you seriously just using 1983 as proof that there were never mass food shortages in the USSR? Because that's a hell of a picked cherry there.

Vavilov would turn in his grave, if he were actually given a proper grave, and if he had any muscles remaining after Stalin starved him to death in a Gulag for trying to solve the USSR's famine problem.