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Best I can offer is a community, and no land

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I posted about my doubts about a concept due to scalability. Was your response to that not an argument for why scalability need not be a concern? Maybe I misunderstood it.

Also, your condescension is unnecessary. You don’t know how long I’ve been thinking about something.

In what way does capitalism require moving close to your job? The line between want and need in these situations is very thin. They need to work, and they want to not spend much of their day commuting. If they didn’t have to work at all they might prefer to live elsewhere, but in a world where they do have to work, they would rather live closer to work. Though afaik abolishing capitalism does not mean abolishing the need to work (though it would greatly reduce the amount of work)

For universities and recreation you seem to be saying it is not necessary to live in a city to access, which I agree with, but it’s irrelevant. The fact is that people still do live in cities because they want to live closer to university, or they want to have access to a wide variety of recreational activities. Even without a profit motive, having a large number of people nearby is a good reason to build recreational centres, and having access to a wide range of recreational activities is still a good motivation to live in a place. On top of this, many dense population centres are around natural sources of recreation which cannot be simply built elsewhere, like beaches, mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.

You don’t have to convince me that cities as they exist now are generally terrible, I totally agree with you. But evidently a huge number of people still think it is worth living in cities, and if cities/ high population centres in general still exist even without capitalism, then the scalability of a system is still very much a valid concern, no?

It seems to me to be a good thing if MAGA is fracturing? I’d be more concerned if they were unified in hiding behind one scapegoat, to avoid repercussions from the Epstein files

I mean we can agree on this as much as we want, but that doesn’t change the way people are living, and so we still need a solution for it.

We can also just look at the reasons people today still live in densely populated cities, despite big drawbacks such as the cost of housing. Proximity to jobs, universities, recreation options, grocery stores, and more. It makes perfect sense that during COVID when much of these benefits were essentially eliminated due to lockdowns, that the negatives began to outweigh the positives for many people, and so they moved away.

I don’t know exactly what your idea of an anarchist utopia looks like, but if it still involves things like universities, a wide variety of available jobs, various recreational activities, etc. then I don’t see why the desire for people to live in cities would change?

Also, not really related to my main point, but still: Yes throughout history we generally lived in rural communities, but this was not due to desire but necessity. For most of history small areas simply could not sustain large numbers of people, not too mention the other problems like housing and disease. But once we worked out how to sustain ourselves, we started living in larger and larger groups. It just so happens that some of these problems were solved under capitalism.

I do really think that in small communities, there would be no problem abolishing the police. But the problem I see which I don’t think I’ve seen a good argument for, is how it can work at scale. We generally live in much larger and denser communities than the native peoples lived, so it seems like the strategies they used to handle bad-actors won’t work in the same way for us.

If you feel like you are about to sneeze, but you don’t want to (maybe you are on a video call, or trying to be quiet, whatever), tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It works surprisingly well.

I think you have vegan confused with sugar-free? Sugar is vegan :)

There are vegan gummy bears though

That’s outrageous. What you are suggesting is gategate!

Pottery! I’d love to have (even just access to) a small studio where I could make things and fire the clay.

But is it ever 100% hot outside? No matter how hot it feels, it can always get hotter.

SUPER. HOT. SUPER. HOT.

Sorry for replying to an old comment, but do you have some source to support this? I am searching online but finding nothing :(

Sure but there is a difference between talking about something you find exciting, and “humblebragging”

It’s legal to have ZERO days off a year?! This feels like a human rights violation somehow

So I enjoy good discourse, and I think most of your post is reasonable, but is it really necessary to start it off with insults and condescension?

Ok interesting, thanks for the answer. I’m also curious what exactly “community” envisions? Does it just refer to existing towns/cities/city divisions? Or would it be necessary for the existing areas to be “broken up” into smaller, closer communities? My thinking is that in large cities there are often a huge number of people, and yet very little sense of community between them, so I am doubtful how well a community driven system could scale?