𝔗𝔢𝔯 𝔐𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔪𝔞

The “small scale” part of my comment is a bit of an overstatement. Perhaps I should have said “smallest practical scale”.

I believe mostly in letting people make choices for themselves, which I think is best served by having organisations at a size where an individual voice has the opportunity to make a difference.

This can be achieved in many different ways, including having partially independent subdivisions within large scale organizations.

One of the (many) failings of the USSR was, at least for a long time at the start, insufficient flexibility and reactivity to local issues. But thinking about it, maybe this isn’t a good reason to think ill of centralized planning. The USSR had incompetent centralized planning (especially in the agricultural sector in the earlier days), the failures and famines could be argued to me more due to the incompetence than to core attributes of centralized planning.

I am personally weary of centralized planning, I think small scale cooperatives are the way to go instead of big corporations. With more centralized authority for things that require it, like law enforcement.

I’m lucky to say both my parents are like this. They have flaws, for sure, and it would probably worry them if I started unloading on them suddenly, but they wouldn’t judge or be angry at me, that’s for certain.

If anything I need to filter what I say to protect them, they’re both quite prone to worrying too much for things that aren’t very important.

Genuinely good person : 99% Trust with my life : 10%

The main issue about the second thing is that I wouldn’t expect someone I barely know to risk their life for me. I don’t think this makes them bad people, though. I think it’s reasonable.

Seems like not heating at all may have been even more lucrative, though. Would the temperatures have dropped intolerably low if you did so ?