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Originally Posted by elphenor
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Yeah basically. People are too dumb to govern themselves on any large scale. And on any small, communist scale, well, any settlement would have to dispense with anything that large scale civilization gave them. Like vaccines. A kibbutz-scale settlement wouldn't be able to develop, let alone manufacture vaccines, so polio and smallpox are back. And bubonic plague and whatever the **** else. And god help anyone living in the malaria zone. So that's one horseman.
And you can't have major projects like the dams we have now, so any irrigation would have to be small scale like "back in the day", and therefore be subject to drought and therefore famine on a scale that modern, 1st-world countries generally aren't anymore. So people are dying of thirst and hunger.
But how do you solve those problems? I know! Form communities of communities to pool resources and labor, sorta like "countries". Which I'm sure would not at all lead to exactly the kind of capitalism that now exists. Nope.