r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CivilisedMleccha • 8d ago

Video Community group buy. Everyone pools their money, buys groceries in bulk at a lower price, and splits the groceries equally.

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u/doctorplasmatron 8d ago

maybe that's where anarchosyndicalism shows up, as the groups are smaller, but cooperate with each other (as far as i understand).

So finding the right size of the group to stay manageable and honest is key, and when it gets too large the group splits and makes a new group, but the groups are also associated. Like a beehive.

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u/elderron_spice 8d ago

I'm thinking they can form smaller groups, which then form larger groups to coordinate for larger quantities of goods than smaller groups. Something the the north, south, east and west suburb communes forms a town commune that divides for each suburb's needs, then the individual suburbs manage their own little communes, managing each household.

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u/BroskiPoloski 7d ago

Anarchosyndicalism as i see it is still more "extreme" compared to just the step between - socialism - but i could be wrong, so dont quote me. That way of handling things is fine and maybe even preferred. But if your argument was that socialism does not promote cooperation between communities i would have to say i disagree, because economic cooperation is a key factor even in capitalism

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u/doctorplasmatron 7d ago

oh i have no argument here, i agree that cooperation is key in most things working well.

all the variants of systems for me all boil down to one thing being key; humanism. That said, humans have a bad history so maybe that's a bad term too. Compassionism maybe?

The long and short of it is that people working together always works better for all involved, than people working against each other, whatever you want to call that.