You're all true until allocating scarce resources. These days economy is how to make scarce something that isn't in order to profit from it. See copyrights and patents. In our society a replicator would be the property of a company and you would need to pay it to be allowed to use it.
The government in 1700 didn't have as strong of a grasp on the military as it does now. And the police kind of didn't exist in this time. The biggest inventions of the 20th century are mass surveillance, repression, and propaganda. An armed force being able to go from one side of the country to the other in a few hours is also a strength for government stability.
Small businesses grow, that's how capitalism works. When OP talks about empowering individuals, that's liberal ideology. When talking about how self-employment is better for society, that's liberal ideology.
Being self employed means you support all the risks of your activity, without any mutualisation or support from society or partners. That's a distopia.
Self employment is very much not something you should seek. Self employment means the worker support all the risk. That's a boon for the capitalists. Why do you think uber and stuff are so successful?
What the fuck?! This shit with tiltok is one of the ugliest imperialist shit the USA pulled this century, dropping the rule of trade to the full on empire mode, and you're talking here about whataboutism?
We have a country literally stealing a company because it's profitable and can spread influence! And you're here like "China bad"?
Is this the strategy? Anytime something bad from the US comes up you deflect for it to be about China I guess?
Going on a witch hunt against tankies and calling tankies everyone who disagree with you is not really showing you under a good light. As you said, referring to people as tankies want only and haphazardly will make you called a fascists, because only the fascists are hunting down tankies with definitions known to them only.
Again, throughout history the leftists are the first to fight and to be hunted down by the fascists. And as a matter of fact, the fight and the hunt has started in the western world.
Sure, Russia and China are fascists countries and bad in many ways. But USA and Europe are turning fascist too. That is what concerns me. And turning fascist in order to fight Russia or China is just stupid.
You're all true until allocating scarce resources. These days economy is how to make scarce something that isn't in order to profit from it. See copyrights and patents. In our society a replicator would be the property of a company and you would need to pay it to be allowed to use it.