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Capitalism has provided the best outcomes for the most people around the whole world. It’s not utopia but it’s the best we have right now. It sounds like you’re
by goldenchrome 5y ago
Capitalism has provided the best outcomes for the most people around the whole world. It’s not utopia but it’s the best we have right now. It sounds like you’re insinuating that our current economic system is akin to getting lashes for not picking cotton.
- Clubber 5y ago>Capitalism has provided the best outcomes for the most people around the whole world. It’s not utopia but it’s the best we have right now. Absolutely, that doesn't mean it's great in all forms though. The South's antebellum economic system was capitalist too. The US system can certainly improve. >It sounds like you’re insinuating that our current economic system is akin to getting lashes for not picking cotton. The lash and the cotton (mostly) is different, sure.
- eli_gottlieb 5y ago>It sounds like you’re insinuating that our current economic system is akin to getting lashes for not picking cotton. No, it sounds like the article is saying that outright.
- malermeister 5y agoSure, the threat might be starvation or not being able to afford medical treatment instead of a leash and it's working a shitty job in retail instead of picking cotton, but the core dynamic of forced value extraction through labor still exists. It just has a few more levels of abstraction now.
- goldenchrome 5y agoSure but it’s not clear that there’s a better system readily available to us.
- malermeister 5y agoPersonally I favor worker's self-management as practiced in Yugoslavia before nationalism destroyed it. tl;dr: An economic system where every company is a worker-owned coop, the board is elected by the workers and the various coops compete in the market.