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I feel like capitalism is a natural phenomenon of specialization. Imagine if the human body didn’t have a dozen different organs each producing a specialized p
by mentos 4y ago
I feel like capitalism is a natural phenomenon of specialization.
Imagine if the human body didn’t have a dozen different organs each producing a specialized product for your body and instead had one organ that tried to do everything?
- Ghexor 4y agoI'm curious, do you have a counterpart to "capital" and "property" in your analogy? I think capitalism facilitates specialization - and that quite effectively at scale. Specialization can occur without capitalism, too. There are other systems to coordinate specialists.
- capitalsigma 4y agoOf course -- just look at all of those successful centrally planned economies throughout history that definitely did not regularly subject their population to famine
- philosopher1234 4y agoBlack Plague was natural too. That’s no defense of it.