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Just found out that socialism doesn’t mean what I thought it meant.

I looked up the dictionary definitions of socialism and communism because the false-equivalency arguments got me curious. Communism is, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, plus all property being owned by the state. It's idealistic and it obviously hasn't worked, but that's what it is. Socialism holds that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be regulated by the community as a whole. And only that. So it turns out I had a misconception, in that while things like single-payer healthcare and universal basic income may RESULT from socialism, they are not INHERENT to socialism. UBI may lead to libertarianism, but they're not the same thing. It seems that we here at antiwork are more like Utilitarians than anything. Universal basic income would be beneficial for us, and so we support it. Same with single-payer healthcare, removing corruption and bullshit insurance. A 32…


I looked up the dictionary definitions of socialism and communism because the false-equivalency arguments got me curious.

Communism is, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, plus all property being owned by the state. It's idealistic and it obviously hasn't worked, but that's what it is.

Socialism holds that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be regulated by the community as a whole. And only that.

So it turns out I had a misconception, in that while things like single-payer healthcare and universal basic income may RESULT from socialism, they are not INHERENT to socialism. UBI may lead to libertarianism, but they're not the same thing.

It seems that we here at antiwork are more like Utilitarians than anything. Universal basic income would be beneficial for us, and so we support it. Same with single-payer healthcare, removing corruption and bullshit insurance. A 32 hour working week? If productivity goes up and we're happier, why not do it? Pay teachers and EMTs more? See above.

Just putting that out there.

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