Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.
I love it as an idea. I’d love for it to work. Unfortunately, it’s just yet another experiment that falls victim to the “imagine a spherical cow” kind of thinking.
It’s inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.
Don’t be daft. Humans aren’t evil, we simply didn’t evolve to care about anyone outside our Monkeysphere. Give that a read, what do you think? I’ve never read anything that gives such solid explanations for so much of human behavior.
Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that “150 people” is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from ‘Band’ (~45.5) to ‘Tribe’ (~1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.
If it’s even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it’s probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.
Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.
I love it as an idea. I’d love for it to work. Unfortunately, it’s just yet another experiment that falls victim to the “imagine a spherical cow” kind of thinking.
It’s inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.
Don’t be daft. Humans aren’t evil, we simply didn’t evolve to care about anyone outside our Monkeysphere. Give that a read, what do you think? I’ve never read anything that gives such solid explanations for so much of human behavior.
The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12730 for those not interested in a cracked pop-sci article.
Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that “150 people” is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from ‘Band’ (~45.5) to ‘Tribe’ (~1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.
If it’s even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it’s probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.