this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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A Boring Dystopia
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That sounds like a communist utopia you're thinking of, not socialist.
And ignores that it's not that "everything is free", it's that everything is owned by everyone, the same way everyone "pays" for the police - but they don't work for you, they work for everyone / the state.