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> We can replace capitalism when we have a better system That's not how those changes happen. Regular people everywhere constantly experiment with lots of chan
by drewcoo 5y ago
> We can replace capitalism when we have a better system
That's not how those changes happen. Regular people everywhere constantly experiment with lots of changes. Some stick. Then we retcon a pretty story over it to make it seem like there was some monotonically "better" trend.
It's certainly not as if humanity kept feudalism until a well-formed notion of capitalism was ready to replace it.
- sillyquiet 5y agoNo, I agree completely. That's not what all the petty revolutionaries are espousing though. Their rhetoric is pretty clear that they are demanding a complete replacement with something better, usually some flavor of collectivism. I am arguing that's not possible. Improvement will be incremental and evolutionary, by necessity, and will most closely resemble capitalism for a long time