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We need new ways of living in large-scale societies. Current political systems at almost every scale are still essentially just monkey-troup dominance hierarch
by jacknews 3y ago
We need new ways of living in large-scale societies.
Current political systems at almost every scale are still essentially just monkey-troup dominance hierarchies.
Market capitalism does not work at this scale, or rather, it works too well, converting everything to paperclips.
We want the dynamism and innovation that markets bring, without the rentier-ing and enshitification. I notice a strand in recent reporting trying to distinguish 'rentiers' (bad) from 'capitalists' (good), but it's a false distinction; capitalism almost by definition is people with money using it (by owning the means of production, or of existence) for the goal of making more money. All other goals seem to have become incidental, and the environment, social harmony, individual wellbeing and sanity are all victims.
So many problems stem from the incentives these broken systems create. Unconstrained fossil-fuel use, deforestation, pollution of the commons, junk products designed for obsolescence, junk addictive diets, corruption, rash emotive decisionmaking, and on and on.