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[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Collectivism on a local utilitarian scale, like Yeshua's communal and house churches is a great system. But asking the government to do this on a grand scale and by force is ridiculous.

Like solzhenitsyn said, people have forgotten God.

Do things in humbleness and seek out Yeshua's teachings and a far better world would develop. Instead we have Republicans and Democrats who are anti-Christ.

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not religious but agree 100%. Small groups of vetted individuals can gain immense benefits from working together. You get diminishing returns the bigger the group is and the more open it is to inducting outsiders. Once the group is bigger than 50-100 people and you are forced into groups it becomes a huge detriment. The predators take advantage of the sheep, and that in turn makes everyone avoid doing work and instead try and take as much advantage as possible.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeshua did have hundreds in his communal as did the apostles but they based their approach on Yeshua's doctrine. If capitalism took the helm within a communal it would be quite hard to maintain a utilitarian lifestyle without fallibility and human greed taking over. With Yeshua's instruction in mind, then, work for a communals wealth-fare would be a fairly easy achievement.