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What kind of political system does a utopia employ? We could give you the answer right now, but then we'd have made this video for nothing.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Utopian government last
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month What kind of political system doesn't utopia employees Life
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in utopia seems like very nice and it bears some
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resemblance teo modern political systems that we might understand So
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this is society where everyone shares everything They're fifty four
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different cities each is within one days walking distance from
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the next one and each specializes in different things When
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a city has a surplus of something like a type
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of food grains or something like that they just give
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it to the other town they don't have to exchange
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anything So this isn't a capitalist system it's much more
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like socialist system they are all help each other Each
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town is also built using exactly the same city plan
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so that each one looks identical And if you went
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from one to the other you would know exactly where
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to go to get certain things or to get to
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the center of town or to get out of town
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And everyone in the town's has the same types of
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belongings has the same amount of property so that's like
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a communist system where there's a lot of kind of
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highly regulated and small amounts of individually allotted property What 00:01:36.669 --> [endTime] kind of political system doesn't utopia employ
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