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Subsistence vs. Commerce. In smaller populated areas, in a time prior to the industrial revolution, people survived happily producing, within their communities, only that which they needed to survive on a day to day basis. This is fine in a world with a population cap and absolute monarchs. But we like our republics and democracy, right? We like that we don’t have to wake up every morning hungry while our survival is based on if we might end up with a bad harvest this year. We like being warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Distribution of wealth would end all that. It would collapse the capitalist system of the country, create class wars, and require a dictator to keep everything together. Of course, however, this country is too large and too spread out to stay a country for too long when supply suddenly outweighs demand, and the crops rot on the tracks while the boys in Washington spew out worthless money to buy out the idiot consumer. Do these modern day socialists realize how many people would have to die to revert back to a subsistence-like economy? Billions.

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