Rainbow, I assume

check seems fine, though i'm not sure filthy should have much that hits this flop really either

he thinks you bluffed and wants you to bet into him

idk, ace w/ kicker could be good there

or suited connectors. fun hands to play.

What is authoritarian about managing distribution of goods and services based on need?

Once people are reeducated they'll want what's truly best for them.

It's not authoritarian, it's giving people what they really want, they just don't know it!

MBs post had all the nuance in it about the situation i think. It seems pretty obvious?

I imagine the process would look much like the GOP crafting a healthcare bill.

I think you mean, how can managing the distribution of goods and services based on need ever be authoritarian. The idea of the 2nd axis is that they don't correlate. I think the short answer to your question is just depending on how it's managed I guess.

The management bit?

One can certainly ask who decides what you need.

This kind of reminds me about back during election time when everyone kept asking birdman when the violent revolution was starting. And he would get frustrated and say that that's not what he wanted but that instead he just wants there to be a massive paradigm shift in how people thought about everything. If you ignore the whole logistical problem of getting people to buy into your political ideology it would also probably be hard to see why the y axis of that graph matters.

Edit: Forgot about that talking about posters role, pls no ban

Apparently the Scotus is going to hear a case about religious rights and freedom of speech vs baking gay cakes as well.

fortunately for me, I have no abilities

**** the scotus

comin' straight from the underground

I feel like 5 people came in and sidestepped the actual question. I asked how distributing resources based on need was authoritarian. The way a society actually goes about accomplishing that goal is a separate question, to which there are lots of answers. But just like capitalism ostensibly distributes production based on how much one produces, another system might distribute production based on what someone needs. The attack of "well capitalism doesn't ACTUALLY distribute based on a meritocracy" is a true but separate critique. So lets just take the goals at face value and talk about the implementation separately. Because obviously anything done in an authoritarian manner is authoritarian (duh?).

Does anyone have a reason why distribution based on need is inherently authoritarian?

Is this something I actually said, though? Because if I said something like this I was full of ****.

Nobody is saying it is. The y axis of that chart even implies that it isn't an inherent part.

I could be wrong. I'll do a search when I'm on my computer later.

distribution based on "need" isn't inherently authoritarian

only if forced on people

like anything else

Also it's just weird to only view that statement on its on

No more than we have a reason you shouldn't ride a unicorn, bro.

You've insulted and abused anyone who suggested that making things better was better than waiting for the proletariat to decide you're right.

No ****. The idea that this and this alone was what Stalin did is untenable.

So wouldnt that make any distribution method authoritarian? Like whatever method that is used no one really has the choice to opt out of. Makes your argument seem a bit circular.

Society in general needs a method. And whatever method that is used is not one you can choose not to participate in.