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[–] 0 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not talking about your friends specifically.... people hoard, take more than they need out of some kind of fear. People steal, people do all sorts of things out of deep seeded insecurities that seem to directly oppose what a communist nation would demand.

But since some of your friends want to garden that refutes any kind of critique of communism as a system of government. Down vote cuz you think you saw a "communism bad" post or whatever.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 minutes ago

    People hoard because of artificial scarcity. There's nothing wrong with being prepared, but dairy farmers are paid to pour out milk from over milked cows, to keep prices above a set threshold and take a writeoff, rather getting a writeoff to donate it to surrounding communities. Del Monte peach farmers were going to destroy over 400 cling peach trees in California, because Del Monte is closing, rather than find new buyers, grain is wasted, water is extracted for a pittance, bottled, sold back to communities, rather than communities investing more now to make sure clean drinking water is conserved and distributed for an affordable price for their community members, medicine is unresearched because the profit margin wouldn't be high enough, etc ad nauseam.

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