[ExI] Open Individualism

[efc at swisscows.email]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2024, spike at rainier66.com wrote:

> Daniel, the most hard core capitalists are always those who have lived under
> and witnessed communism.

Hello spike, that makes a lot of sense. I grew up under swedish
"velvet"-socialism (a very soft form of socialism) and I'm a "soft"
capitalist. ;)

So I guess the harder your "ism" the more ingrained is the lessons that
it doesn't work, and the more pro-markets you become.

Although... looking at older people at the bottom of the social ladder
here in eastern europe where I reside, some of them do tend to look back
with longing to the "good old USSR days".

The reason for that, as explained to me, is that in those days, the only
thing you needed to do to keep your job was to show up at work and not
be too drunk. You didn't actually have to do that much to get your
salary and you got your apartment. You did not have to make any major
decision in your life, the government did that for you. And with
capicalism all of a sudden they must work hard, for very little money,
so I can definitely understand why they look back with longing to those
days even though it would be disaster for society at large (as proven
every single time a country opts for communism or socialism).

Best regards, 
Daniel