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I had an idea for a socialist utopia on our way to the presence of justice. You can opt into "the cesspool." Where you get an allotment of the total productive power of the Earth to do absolute free market. You hand in your meal ticket and your ELO decays while you're in there. Meanwhile, you have absolute hands off from every bit of state assistance from security to property rights to anything. If any good/productive ideas come about you can take them, but if no one joins, you get sick, or if currency concentrates until it's unplayable that's not my problem until you leave.

Good ideas get exchanged for ELO and a badge next to your name on twitter that would normally have to be gained via union nomination.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

This is the premise of Robert Heinlein's 1940 short story, Coventry.

this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2026
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