Do we have a tally of communist vs capitalist millions of victims

I feel like we never had 'real' communism, as much as we never had real 'free markets' yet

but that's just a vibe

Well there are/were many ‘real’ communism implementations of closed societies. While you’re right that there are no ‘free markets’ experiments, just some bad Crony Capitalism.

How many of those "closed societies" were implemented as such because of direct actions by the US and other larger powers?

Cuba, Guatamala, Vietnam, and North Korea all seem to have been led by people who were very sympathetic to "open-ness" until the CIA got involved.

Who said that government cannot compete with private companies on the free market? It is not like they banned notion, they simply released an alternative product. More competition means better outcome for the customers. But somehow you ended up saying this is communism. How you got there is completely beyond me.

> compete with private companies on the free market

It’s not a free market as soon as Gov’t start using text dollars. It’s also. It competition when one entity has zero risk and endless capital to spend on a project.

If a corporation did this, they’d be accused of being anti-competitive, not fostering competition.

Zero risk and endless capital is a more accurate description of VC than public works. No one gets voted out for investing in useless apps.

On the other hand, government run service has worked on pretty well for the mail and it did not lead to communism.

I think there’s probably at least 100 missing steps between producing open source applications and communism

Can they be automated with AI?