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overfeedlast Friday at 7:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

> But that's cold comfort to someone who doesn't have a job because the company went out of business

I suppose only those who lose their jobs because of a merger, or the CEO making poor decisions ought to get the warm and fuzzies because someone on the Internet won't blame them for their own misfortune.

Somewhere on the spectrum between "egalitarian, flat organization Utopia" and "Slavery", one has to draw a line where entities below that line should not exist.


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appreciatorBuslast Friday at 7:28 PM

You forgot that collective ruin is also an option and we have seen this many times when societies attempted to do away with economic & market concepts.

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skybrianlast Friday at 9:07 PM

In abstract discussions about hypothetical situations, you can imagine things turning out however you like.