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2024-04-09 16:10:13 ET
i mean communism / socialism are more economic structures than anything else. presuming it's a socialist country with a market economy (IE one that has businesses like starbucks) it would be sort of ultimately up to the business still, though the incentive for stuff like this (pointlessly offloading things like recycling / cost of cups onto the consumer) wouldn't be there cause things like recycling / cup production would just be communally controlled by, well, everyone collectively without a profit motive or need to cut corners. so, i mean, one scenario could be everyone would just automatically get reusable cups from the communally controlled government or company's production process for free, and that would be the model. and / or normal paper cup production and the recycling thereof would also be controlled and governed by the people without a profit motive and the company / government would just take care of all of that themselves instead of offloading it onto the consumer. ironically companies used to have to handle their own recycling in america prior to the 80s as well, but that changed thanks to capitalists endlessly lobbying / bribing the government to make recycling a consumer-level problem because of "mah profitz!!1" - but that's the way capitalism always trends until it basically eats itself and continually pisses off / exploits everyone who is a consumer in the process, which is clearly happening now in late stage capitalism, exactly as marx predicted it would. 🤷♂️
makes one wonder what socialism in more countries would look like without the US / CIA endlessly trying to sanction / coup / destabilize those countries so it can't just work itself out. also china's issues that the US may find weird or problematic have a lot more to do with chinese culture / cultural norms than they do communism. though china is a socialist country anyway, not actually communist. communism is sort of an end-goal of socialism, rather than solely an economic system unto itself. |
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