lol, how is this different from his last 3 attempts? (his shitty blog, his twitter misadventures, and his sad failed command of the whitehouse.gov website. . . )
> Essentially, because it was against human nature.
I've heard this counterargument against socialism/communism for a long time, and it always sounds like a form of "magical thinking" to me. Asserting the tautology that "humans are naturally greedy" when if you know any actual humans, you know this is not true.
Short-sightedness, selfishness, greed, and laziness are all easily handled by a functioning criminal justice system, and public education system. At least in THIS country, we willfully subverted and destroyed these institutions, over a long period of time. For various reasons, but mostly because the haves wanted it this way. The same happened in the USSR.
A few entitled and already very wealthy people are greedy. Most of the rest of us will ACT greedy when they've been deprived of basic necessities by a crooked and rigged system. But by and large, most people are not inherently greedy.
> Short-sightedness, selfishness, greed, and laziness are all easily handled by a functioning criminal justice system, and public education system.
You really think we can educate short-sightedness out of people? Or laziness? I think you're kidding yourself.
But more: You think "the haves" are greedy. But the haves usually got the good education. It didn't fix the problem.
And, even if the majority of people are in fact not greedy (or power hungry), it only takes a minority of greedy, power-hungry people to ruin things. Take the USSR. Those who were power-hungry and ruthless wound up in power. They produced what such people produce, no matter what the ideology and the rhetoric said.
If you're going to create an ideal system, you have to keep those people from ruining it. And the answer isn't to create a system powerful enough to keep those people in check, because those people will be drawn to the power they can have by running the system. Soon enough, they'll be in power - if not this generation, then the next.
Utopians always bank on the perfectibility of human nature. The available evidence is strongly against that view of humanity. And no, fixing the education system and the criminal justice system won't do it. They will help, and we should by all means pursue both fixes. But they won't let us build a utopia.
Except the cells are formed with rigid members which transmit sound (and heat) quite efficiently. Sound isolation can't just be done with mass. There has to be a decoupling you can't get with a brick wall alone.
Even advanced heating/cooling efficiency techniques with wood framed houses involve some form of isolation - no single material will exist all the way through the wall. They're decoupled with several inches of foam. Even modern studs are being built in a way to minimize the ability for them to transfer heat (Tstuds).
The whole west coast is full of old brick houses; which were either knocked down, or have been retrofitted and reinforced. Because brick structures are inherently unstable in earthquakes.
A lot of people are willing to spend big money to shut down truth.