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on paper it sounds legit, but eventually it comes down to who has control of it.
Speaking of USSR, there's going to be responsible person assigned for that place, whether it was collective farm or any manufacutring plant. And everyone who is in that place will have an personal interest in abusing that power. Ordinary workers took whatever they could find to home, it was known that if everything is owned by everyone, therefore it is also mine. I think shared ownership goes against human nature and to live in altruistic and self preserving society would mean to overcome it. When we think of ourselves part of humanity and not part group/nationality/political view or individual maybe we will be one step closer
Human nature is to eat, fuck, reproduce, and work together in small tribes of 100 people. We are hyper social apes, almost as social as ants.
I think the vast majority of things are shared. Air, water, soil... roads, schools... your education.... the bathrooms at the supermarket... the murals/sculptures that make your town look less like a shithole...
It's perfectly in line with human nature, actually, to share things. People who amass hoards of wealth and fight for power and control... those are the weirdos.
How can you say this about industry, but not something already publicly owned, like police, fire departments or military? And yes, yes, I know how well some of those are run, BUT, would they be better under private control? Hell no. In fact, I'm pretty sure they'd be better without the corrupting influence private wealth has on our political system.
Fire Depts are generally pretty well run tbh