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I'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 mu
by autoexec 4y ago
I'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