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Until someone other than the government has the ability to throw people in jail and levy massive fines for violating regulations they're the ones for the job. T
by autoexec 4y ago
Until someone other than the government has the ability to throw people in jail and levy massive fines for violating regulations they're the ones for the job. The problem isn't who is in authority. Everyone is, to some degree, vulnerable to massive amounts of money. The solution is to increase transparency and hold people accountable for corruption.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoagree that the problem isn't who is in authority, disagree that crony capitalism can be solved with reform to reach some purer more egalitarian form of capitalism - crony capitalism is capitalism btw, graeber/wengrow research has found that it's historically inaccurate to say that all this is necessary or inevitable in larger society
- autoexec 4y agoI'm open to alternatives to capitalism. I'm just waiting to see a superior system successfully put into practice and maintained, at an appreciable scale, for multiple generations in the modern world. Without that, proposed alternatives are great for thought provoking theoretical and philosophical consideration, but are without much utility when it comes to replacing what we have. The system we have now is largely failing us, but it can be carefully reformed into something a bit better. Throwing it out and replacing it with something entirely other isn't something I'd support without knowing exactly what we'd be getting ourselves into and that means seeing it (or something very close to it) at work.
- wahnfrieden 4y agowell that's basically what the graeber/wengrow speaks to - looking at actual human history to understand how these alternatives might have already been put into practice, at scale and over time, in post-agriculture discovery societies. that's about the best you will get for existing demonstrated capability at scale in an approximately modern age