Well, it’s just another version of Marxism, right? Central control of resources

Well, it’s just another version of Marxism, right? Central control of resources by some self selected elite in order to pursue some end chosen by those elites?

So instead of pursuing a worker revolution. Instead of pursuing equality under the law. Instead of pursuing equality of opportunity. Instead of pursuing equality of condition. Instead of pursuing equality of outcome. Instead of pursuing the end of class oppression, of economic oppression, of racial oppression, of gender oppression, and now of identity oppression, the left wants once again to control resources and opportunities they cannot demonstrate the ability to conceive, organize, and produce, they want that control *without* demonstrating merit?

What record do democratic governments have of good choices? Any? What do good any governments that are in the lead do? Nothing. Government can drive change if the change is produced elsewhere and the people need to ‘catch up’. But they cannot know what hypothetical goods to pursue.

And for that matter, who is of the opinion that we are already not enduring change faster than our minds, norms, cultures, philosophies, laws, and institutions can adapt to on empirical evidence? We can’t.

We cannot know ‘the good’ other than by discovering something that works and determining what is good. The via positiva fallacy is that we can know what is good, other than what is bad.

We can know what is bad. We can act via negativa to eliminate the bad, and devote resources only to the potential goods.

We know the central ‘bad’: overpopulation by a vast world underclass.

The central problem we face is the REDUCTION OF THE SCALE OF THE UNDER CLASSES.

The rest of the opportunities are rapidly exploited by the private sector as fast as we can manage them. And the only ones they private sector can’t do is space exploration.

No. So no. All this wisfhul thinking is nonsense. FInd something we are behind on that is already proven and government can do that. Find soething that the market CAN’T do that is basic reserach, and maybe that is ok.

Otherwise, governement does one thing: pilfer as much as it can to distribute to cronies.