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Pure capitalism (anarchy) is just people exchanging things via barter. Government is generally to blame when things get too centralised (either by fiddling the
by throwaway3699 6y ago
Pure capitalism (anarchy) is just people exchanging things via barter. Government is generally to blame when things get too centralised (either by fiddling the market or by not enforcing antitrust).
- orthecreedence 6y ago> Pure capitalism (anarchy) is just people exchanging things via barter. Anarchy and capitalism are two extremely different things, and also there are methods of free association (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(Marxism_and_anarchism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_association_(Marxism_and_...) that allow for distributed production without any centralization OR private ownership of production/profit-driven exchange. Granted, we're far off from these things probably, but capitalism is turning out to be a steaming pile of shit so it's good to think about what comes after without turning into a centrally-planned hell hole.
- throwaway3699 6y agoAh, I mean the purest form of capitalism is one without any government or monetary system controlling the currency or tax on transactions. I think this is a reasonable statement. Capitalism, much like democracy it's the least-worst system out there. I believe most of the problems we're facing with it are challenges of scale. Especially in the US, it's just too big. Maybe breaking everything up back to the state level would be a good idea?
- orthecreedence 6y ago> Maybe breaking everything up back to the state level would be a good idea? No matter what, I'm almost always in favor of decentralization/distribution of power and resources, so I could get behind this.