• masquenox
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    1 year ago

    Like, if a community really wanted a unicycle repair shop, how would that get started?

    Pretty much the same way a community would start a co-op right now.

    Would that be up to a local government (or some other governing body)?

    Public participation, of course. The community would form councils, where people would collectively decide whether this is a good idea or not. That literally what the word soviet means - councils of people making decisions (which is why the Bolsheviks hijacked them and turned the word into a cruel joke).

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      1 year ago

      Well if the state provides funds based on need, we don’t need unicycles or pogo sticks at all so we just wouldn’t have them.

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        The state is not qualified to decide whether someone needs a pogo stick - neither are billionaire parasites.