• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    And that’s the only intellectual critique of socialism I ever heard

    It almost is, until you watch 5 minutes of billionares talking and go “so these are the smarter guys that won’t fuck it up”.

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      His critique carries the underlying assumption that private owners of the means of production are selected for their merit rather than nepotism, chance, corruption, and sociopathic tendencies.

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      Right, as if things haven’t already been fucked up entirely in the default of capitalist ownership