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Post by unknownguest on Sept 25, 2004 18:58:11 GMT -5
To be honest, I think overproduction/underproduction are inevitable.
There's no apparent way to "perfectly match" needs and production in any system.
For instance, one abstract example: everyone person is given one electric light bulb a month. In a family of two persons one electric light bulb would be surplus and it could be changed on some other critical goods from other family. Great number of similar cases will lead to the necessity to have a unit to measure the exchanging of different goods. Then one of goods would become a "money" (like a bottle of vodka which became a money in Brezhnev's period in the USSR). I'm far from the thought that You with your great life experience look like yesterday's schoolboy and suppose to appearing a new biologic kind of human - unselfish one. I try "to fish" from you what would be the alternative to market economic system? How would work communistic economic system as system but not as emotional impulses of people?
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redstar2000SE
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Post by redstar2000SE on Sept 25, 2004 23:46:17 GMT -5
unknown guest wrote: Then one of goods would become a "money" (like a bottle of vodka which became a money in Brezhnev's period in the USSR)...and suppose to appearing a new biologic kind of human - unselfish one.
Well, much would depend on the nature and duration of shortages in communist society. If they were brief and sporadic, then there would be no need for a kind of "money"...if they were chronic (as they were in the USSR), then something like you describe might arise.
The "norm" of communist society ought to be one of abundance...and you take whatever you can use.
Your other question has nothing really to do with "biology" but rather with social context.
People may well be "biologically selfish" (no one knows), but the form which "selfishness" takes depends on the material conditions of the society in which s/he finds herself/himself.
Indeed, "selfishness" could very well take the form of conspicuous altruism...in a society where the display of such behavior was rewarded by prestige, status, and even becoming a celebrity.
So...it all depends.
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