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		mhh__ on Oct 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs ... Why? If I organise enough people to vote to end subsidies like those featured in the article, I have created communism? What is practised in the west isn't even along a socialism-capitalism axis, it's just corruption. That is a problem in any society held together by words.

AnimalMuppet on Oct 5, 2020 [–]

Why is corruption a problem specifically in a society held together by words? In what kind of society wouldn't it be a problem?

mhh__ on Oct 5, 2020 | [–]

The remark was mostly to point out that we can and should aim for better, but we don't.

I'm a bit drunk so excuse any poor oracy

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