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Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments:
Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.
Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state's economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.
The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.
The measure to further economic development with the "alternative form of local government" has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.
[...] The governor's economic development office did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @06:23PM (3 children)
You don't seem to understand *how* communism is suppose to work.
The central idea of communism is, the workers own the means of production. If you ever worked in a co-operative, that's the definition of a communism.
The problem with communism is that there is inability to plan flows of ... capital. Especially on large scale and then down to small scale. So everything is stuck in quagmire. In capitalism, this mechanism is with the "wealthy class".
Now, if there ever was some way of having a middle between the two idiotic extremes. Some way of allowing capital flows and some people to have more than others without blowing things completely out of proportion on either end?? Maybe some kind of a social-centric ideology??
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @07:11PM (1 child)
Socialism is workers own means of production.
Communism is the government owns means of production.
Socialism is generally better as it is the intersection of capitalism and communism.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:10PM
Wrong. In the last stages of "successful" communism, it is supposed there is no government.
That is one point of failure that makes communism an utopia - even assuming that this status is possible, there's no way to achieve it top-down approach starting from a society that values private property; "government as a mean to reach a non-government in which everybody behaves" is impossible for any practical purposes.
And this is not the only point of failure.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:15PM
False. That's the definition of socialism. For your convenience [wikipedia.org], with the emphasis on what you missed in your "definition":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford