The end of capitalism has begun, but what will replace it?
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Take it one step further.. If anyone trades money, labor, goods, services, etc, they have actively participated in a fundamental form of capitalism.
To extend the ideal... If there are 'differences' in the lives between folks in a 'socialist' environment (I'm thinking bigger house, more comfortable, more foodstuffs, etc.) this is an expression of the results of (some form of) capitalism.
If you don't have capital a person would have to be 100% subsistence based. That is pretty much impossible.
Capitalism does not need replacing it needs to be curtailed in some respects.
Capitalism needs to be more responsive to the society from which it derives
it profits. Social license is becoming more of an issue. In addition the large
corporate groups need to be limited to ensure competition. That is the answer.
However when things go too far one way they spring back too far the other.
so we are likely to end up with some kind of hybrid social democracy with a
large capitalist tax base to keep it all running.
Look at China today they used to be a Communist country not anymore they are
a corporate dictatorship with the military in control of progress. America is the
other end the so called democracy is based on capitalism but is propped up and
defended by militarized policing and defended by the military itself. Therefore the
only real institution to be sacrificed at the alter of human progress is the concept
of democracy beyond theory. We in Canada are not in fact a democracy at all
We are a constitutional Monarchy
Capitalism needs to be more responsive to the society from which it derives
it profits. Social license is becoming more of an issue. In addition the large
corporate groups need to be limited to ensure competition. That is the answer.
However when things go too far one way they spring back too far the other.
so we are likely to end up with some kind of hybrid social democracy with a
large capitalist tax base to keep it all running.
Look at China today they used to be a Communist country not anymore they are
a corporate dictatorship with the military in control of progress. America is the
other end the so called democracy is based on capitalism but is propped up and
defended by militarized policing and defended by the military itself. Therefore the
only real institution to be sacrificed at the alter of human progress is the concept
of democracy beyond theory. We in Canada are not in fact a democracy at all
We are a constitutional Monarchy
I would argue that they are the sort of pure Capitalist that we used to have in our past and that have not been allowed to operate in our system since they Great Depression.
Keep on working at minimum wage for the big corporations and having them tell you you are poor because you didn't work enough, not that they aren't paying you fairly and keeping the vast majority of the money for themselves.
SO when does the f?ree apples sign go out on your driveway
Get an education or a trade and you won't have to work for minimum wage.
Or organize and negociate for better wages.
