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haele

(15,019 posts)
30. Socializing both risks and profit.
Tue May 27, 2025, 03:04 PM
May 2025

Look, the US military and Federal Government Workforce are socialist systems. They're Hierarchal Authoritarian styles of Socialism, but there's a floor that sustains and incentives the workforce, and benefits are commiserate to the task being done. Funding for everything comes from a common pool where each organization plans it's expenditures, and all "profit" goes back to that common pool where it can be spent on maintenance, training, improvements to the organization, and new services or innovations.
Organizations exist for the customer or service provided, not for a single benefactor or small group of investor/benefactors.
And the system works just fine - it's scalable as necessary.
You tell me what that system of economics is is.

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Socializing both risks and profit. haele May 2025 #30
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