Why is trade necessary? Is it because the commune would not be able to produce everything it needs and wants?

Correct. It’s wants would exceed what it can produce. It can trade the excess of what it produces for other goods and services.

What if it can cover all needs and good enough portion of the wants?

Self sufficiency is difficult at a commune level. Just access to healthcare is a need.

We can see this already in real world. Don’t even worry about the commune aspect. A less developed country has lower access to healthcare, education, etc. To develop they have to have something valuable to trade.

I think there IS a need to compete. You have to produce more than just subsistence. Without any goods to trade, this hypothetical third world commune will have very little economic growth.

Hence the need to be competitive with other producers in the marketplace (which could be private industry). If private industry can produce the same goods far cheaper than the commune then it’s tough for that commune to make money. No/low income means there can be very little industrial build up with no funding to invest in more infrastructure, equipment or resources.

This is why I mentioned political power. Government can support that industrialization process. e.g. directly providing funds, building infrastructure, creating laws that bring foreign capital. etc.

I see it as a step towards more communes however there’s no political change there at any level of government.

A “low key third world country” has to industrialize in some way to add value to their production and to get benefits of scale. Are these communes going to be able to compete with private industry who probably have access to greater funding and government protection?

I think for boomer liberals, their memory is pretty hazy and the 60s was the end of racism. “We did it guys! Everyone can sit on the same bus seats.”

I think the nostalgia is also in the 2nd tv series as well. The Addams Family was the original series from the 60s.

It’s very common for reactionaries to seek to rewind the clock to a “better” time because the present has all these modernization problems. For the boomers, the 60s were better than today. For Gen X, maybe the 80s were better.

Both the 2nd and 3rd tv series are aimed at younger viewers or the young-at-heart: trying to convey the joy of youth.

I am creating a new term rather than “disinformation” : “thisinformation” = As in “thisinformation is not cool with me (Factually true but not cool)”.

e.g. Russians are peddling thisinformation about Ukraine.

You can test for mold using an air quality monitor that has a PM1.0. That means it detects particles <1 μm in size which is good for bacteria. Combine that with an air purifier suitable for the size of the cellar.

Windows to cellars should already have trickle vents otherwise it could get damp pretty quickly. Look carefully at the frame of the small window. If no trickle vent, look to install one.

We recently had Australian mainstream media talking about a slum in Australian iron ore sales to China and calling it sign of China’s property crash.

I wonder now if iron ore is trading within BRICS in a similar way and Australia is getting the cold shoulder for being the US puppet it is.

I agree the stock market is a big influence of the economy. Stocks are massively overvalued. There’s not enough available cash in existence if there’s big sell off on a major stock like Intel. Hence the need to print money. If the Fed didn’t intervene, that illusion of stocks actually having cash value would vaporise.

None of those implications are bad UNLESS you are a manufacturer of those goods in the West. Or investing in those manufacturers. This is where WSJ falls flat on its ass.

The rest of the economy is a consumer of those cheaper goods. So the discounts on those goods makes the wallet go further. That’s good for consumption. Consumers might even throw more money towards those dogshit services that economists are now in love with.

Everyone just makes stuff for fun in China!

Sucks to be Joerg who only makes stuff for money.

Price down is … bad now? Just pay extra then and call it a tip!

Meanwhile our media and leaders are predicting war with China in 2027…

So how the fuck are submarines planned to arrive decades later going to be relevant? Shrug

“It’s not a recession! (We’re just fucking you over harder)”

NYT can’t seem to travel to the same places and counter the narrative of these bloggers.

My perspective would be that a government providing services like healthcare which is funded via taxation is not communist in any way. It’s just called government.

Maybe in a shithole where your government just taxes you and then you still fork out for healthcare, it might look like communism… But most people would just call it public services.

Assholes only appreciate bigger assholes.

No hope. You aren’t a reeducation camp.

Imagine being a member of a household where everyone shared all the maintenance or productive work based on their abilities, circumstances and preferences. Now expand that to a collection of households.

Mandarin and Japanese

They’re going to rename it “Bidening” at this rate.