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There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. The theory is cute and some people in Europe thought it would work. It didn't a

by csomar 4y ago

There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. The theory is cute and some people in Europe thought it would work. It didn't and that's how we ended up with capitalism. Humans are capitalist traders by instinct. Marxism makes logical sense, however.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> Humans are capitalist traders by instinct. Humans are Feudal creatures by instict - thats why feudalism lasted thousands of yeats. Democracy and freedom are fragile and unnatural, they must be cherished. > There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. This is the brain disease of American politics, anyone pointing out injustice of any kind is accused of Marxism. The only acceptable way for society to evolve is ever-increasing privilidges for the wealthy untill average man can never hope to afford real estate and can't afford a layer. Then we will arrive at feudalism.
- WalterBright 4y ago
  > Then we will arrive at feudalism Feudalism failed when capitalism competed with it.
komali2 4y ago
> There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. Too late, I'm already a communist. A very capitalistically successful one, mind you. Further along this thread is way off topic, I don't want to kick off a flame war of communism vs capitalism, I wanted to see what people have in mind about how companies like Google, that exist in a capitalist system, can be forced to care for the needs of their employees over the needs of their shareholders. Whether or not the system should / can be changed is, well, another thread or something lol, not for here. That said your comment has some interesting ideas that I'm seeing as misconceptions ("some people in Europe that thought it would work" are arguably some of the most important philosophers in the western tradition) but maybe you're thinking along some lines I'm not aware of, so if you want to chat about this I'd love to do so in email, my address is on my profile page here.

by csomar 4y ago

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

> Humans are capitalist traders by instinct. Humans are Feudal creatures by instict - thats why feudalism lasted thousands of yeats. Democracy and freedom are fragile and unnatural, they must be cherished. > There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. This is the brain disease of American politics, anyone pointing out injustice of any kind is accused of Marxism. The only acceptable way for society to evolve is ever-increasing privilidges for the wealthy untill average man can never hope to afford real estate and can't afford a layer. Then we will arrive at feudalism.

WalterBright 4y ago
> Then we will arrive at feudalism Feudalism failed when capitalism competed with it.

komali2 4y ago

> There is a dangerous path in this rationalization that will lead you to Marxism. Too late, I'm already a communist. A very capitalistically successful one, mind you. Further along this thread is way off topic, I don't want to kick off a flame war of communism vs capitalism, I wanted to see what people have in mind about how companies like Google, that exist in a capitalist system, can be forced to care for the needs of their employees over the needs of their shareholders. Whether or not the system should / can be changed is, well, another thread or something lol, not for here. That said your comment has some interesting ideas that I'm seeing as misconceptions ("some people in Europe that thought it would work" are arguably some of the most important philosophers in the western tradition) but maybe you're thinking along some lines I'm not aware of, so if you want to chat about this I'd love to do so in email, my address is on my profile page here.