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I'm not uncritical of capitalism, especially as we practice it with high amounts of monopolization over sectors and regulatory capture by conglomerates. But com
by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I'm not uncritical of capitalism, especially as we practice it with high amounts of monopolization over sectors and regulatory capture by conglomerates. But communism as historically demonstrated will not solve our problems, and will likely make them worse.
Which historical communist country would you like to live in?
- tut-urut-utut 4y ago> Which historical communist country would you like to live in? None of the historically available communist countries would be my choice of living. In the same way, I would not be eager to live in any of the historical early pure capitalist countries, unless I am sure I would belong to the top 1-5% percent. Good capitalism implementation borrowed quite a bit from communism/socialism, to make those systems bearable for an average citizen. Given that capitalism exists at least a hundred-year longer, I suppose there's still possibility for a nice implementation of communism to come. It took capitalism at least 150 years to get to the somewhat liveable level. I'd still rather live in a Star Trek like communist utopia/dystopia than in an Elysium like capitalist utopia/dystopia.
- ravel-bar-foo 4y agoThat's kind of sad, considering our parents all survived the 2nd half of the 20th century, and they probably weren't in the top 1-5%. I would be quite happy living in Western Europe or the US during the 2nd half of the 20th century. I think one's chances of living a brutishly short life would have been less than 5%.