• Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com
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    2 years ago

    In all likelihood they would be neither. With modern technology, we don’t need a large percent of the population farming. I realize communists typically eliminate the intellectuals and kulaks—those who would actually have useful knowledge—first, but the smart things would be to have the current farmers keep farming. You’d likely be assigned to a factory to manufacture widgets for the rest of your days.

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        2 years ago

        Eh, so do Communists but they just eliminated them on industrial scales.

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          2 years ago

          Just curious to know if you are familiar with the USSR’s very rapid technological advancement in a very short period of time?

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      2 years ago

      Assuming technology didn’t take a dive bomb that would be automated fairly quickly as well, look at how much robotics already does in manufacturing.

      Most people would be reassigned as IT and programmers, robotics technicians, etc. If it was actually done properly.

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        2 years ago

        There’s already like 10 times as many programmers and whatnot then there need to be. Look at how many duplicates apps there are for everything.

        More likely they would be booted out as well

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      2 years ago

      Do they eliminate intellectuals? The USSR and China seem to have avoided this. I don’t believe most nations did this other than Cambodia and I will never see that shitshow as socialist.

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        2 years ago

        In the USSR it was kind of mixed. If you were at all associated with the old regime you were fucked but tbh a lot of them weren’t super sympathetic anyway.

        In China, lol. They fucking murdered everyone who knew anything and then suffered horribly for it. Of course, even then they might have been somewhat okay except Mao thought he knew better so they got the Great Leap Forward and stuff like the Four Pests campaign.