gentoobro on Nostr: Think about it from the perspective of an illiterate peasant who knows not much more ...

Think about it from the perspective of an illiterate peasant who knows not much more than how to grow potatoes on the lord's land under the lord's pay. There's all this land owned by the lord, but now the lord is dead. Who's to own the land now? Who's to decide how much you get paid and how much to sell the potatoes for? Nobody? Can't be nobody, that's just dumb. Me? Can't be me, I can't even read. Everybody? Now we're getting somewhere, like how a family runs. But who should decide for everybody? The father of course, and the father is the wisest in the family, so probably those smart people over there what can read books should get together and form a committee, like they keep saying "we" should do.

The concept of free will and free trade and private land ownership is completely foreign to a 10th-generation serf. The concept that this is in fact vastly superior to all other options just seems silly to him. The concept that central planning will lead to mass starvation would never even occur to him.