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> I believe history has shown that you cannot, and then it has re-run this experiment multiple times, and always ended up with the same result. You seem to thi
by surgical_fire 2y ago
> I believe history has shown that you cannot, and then it has re-run this experiment multiple times, and always ended up with the same result.
You seem to think I am a communist simply for thinking that profit seeking should be regulated by the government and that government functions should not be in the hands of corporations.
I never once said that corporations should not exist, ot that all profit-seeking activity should be forbidden. You just presumed that, because you hold fairly extremes points of view.
The fact that you don't see how extreme your point of view is turns this conversation in an exercise in frustration. Oh well.
- luckylion 2y agoI did not assume that at all. It's just that the communists denied that greed (or, framed more nicely: self-interest) is a common human trait, so they set out to prove that it's much better without it. And the rest is, as they say, history. My opinion is that we don't need to try that again. You appear to believe that profit-seeking cannot result in progress, and I disagree. Is that an extreme viewpoint? If you, too, consider self-interest "of the devil", capable only to destroy but not to create ("profit-seeking can [not] be a force that results in progress"), then I suppose it is an extreme viewpoint, much like the idea that the devil could be a force for good. I just don't believe in the devil, or god, but I believe that you wanting to optimize the outcome for you in a game constrained by rules that require you to create value for others in order to receive value, will end up being much better at creating value than if there was no external motivation for you.