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Like I said before I think zooby and hopefully others would agree that capitalism is like the doorknob , it isn't engineered out of nothing it's the logical outcome of how we work and live as humans , the doorknob is like it is because it best fits our hands , capitalism is like it is because it best fits our greedy desire to sit in ferraries live a lavish lifestyle.
If all people somehow were born with a rock hard hope to be Buddhists I'm sure the whole world would somehow be a big USSR right now , just as Lenin and the soviets wanted , just that in a world with selfish people it could have only be done by force but in a different world maybe it would be our very basic idea of how we need to live ,
but here's the problem a doorknob fits our body and works well and it's natural but it does no harm to no one , capitalism is also natural but since we live in a complex world and people are different with varying strengths this basically means that Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' comes into play , capitalism is basically the survival of the strongest both physically and intellectually , and that may seem fine until we realize that the survival of the fittest among humans is way different than between animals , you probably think why is that ? Here's why , because animals only follow their instinct and when they get what they need they stop , so if a tiger is full then the rest of the sheep are fine and he won't suddenly launch a sneak attack for the rest of the world just for fun.
Humans on the other hand don;'t work exactly that way , look at our world , there are many people who are well off and they have plenty but no they won't stop at that , they will reap through the resources and land as much as they can sometimes without even realizing why their doing that , our desire knows no limits and if unregulated it will go as high as possible and even sky is not the limit here.
Sure you can say capitalism self regulates but it only does so after it has crashed the economy and itself and millions of people who worked hard to make the crashers rich enough for them to crash the economy.
So here's the problem , Communism is a utopia , capitalism is the wild west , no system at all is anarchy , so what we are left with?
Anyhow I think as well as capitalism worked for the west for some time it has to fundamentally change , if not for all the reasons it's bad then surely for the reasons hat are about to come , reasons such widely hated men in the west like Marx spoke about hundreds of years ago , one of them is already happening and happening fast , robots are taking over manufacturing and soon I believe not even a janitor will be needed because quite frankly why ? A robot can work without pauses without vacations without social benefits without a raise in wage without health insurance and can go on for years and only needs maintenance, so obviously it's the option to go for.
And let's face it all these people working low wage jobs in manufacturing if those jobs will go away what else they will do ? go and farm their own land and simply live to eat ? No we are way past that state , we are quite frankly too many for that. They can't suddenly educate themselves to a higher level or become smarter just like that.I think the black protests are a good sign of what can happen , ok the blacks protesting right now do it for a different reasons and in many cases their poverty is due to their own lack of morale and the lifestyle they have chosen and as such I condemn them or those who live that way but what if suddenly people of all races are in this position of poverty and very low freedom for a legitimate reason which is the same for all races?
Modern factories have the tendency for less and less workers and as I have noticed that , the higher the tech in a given factory the less workers required.
Anyway I wonder how manufacturing will look like when AI arrives , could humans finally then leave the working and focus on higher issues like philosophy , science , arts , but again if they remain in their intellectual capacity what kind of focus can they possibly come up with , rather they will be left like unnecessary garbage.
Ok this is getting too long and I have a feeling no one is reading these anymore.
If all people somehow were born with a rock hard hope to be Buddhists I'm sure the whole world would somehow be a big USSR right now , just as Lenin and the soviets wanted , just that in a world with selfish people it could have only be done by force but in a different world maybe it would be our very basic idea of how we need to live ,
but here's the problem a doorknob fits our body and works well and it's natural but it does no harm to no one , capitalism is also natural but since we live in a complex world and people are different with varying strengths this basically means that Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' comes into play , capitalism is basically the survival of the strongest both physically and intellectually , and that may seem fine until we realize that the survival of the fittest among humans is way different than between animals , you probably think why is that ? Here's why , because animals only follow their instinct and when they get what they need they stop , so if a tiger is full then the rest of the sheep are fine and he won't suddenly launch a sneak attack for the rest of the world just for fun.
Humans on the other hand don;'t work exactly that way , look at our world , there are many people who are well off and they have plenty but no they won't stop at that , they will reap through the resources and land as much as they can sometimes without even realizing why their doing that , our desire knows no limits and if unregulated it will go as high as possible and even sky is not the limit here.
Sure you can say capitalism self regulates but it only does so after it has crashed the economy and itself and millions of people who worked hard to make the crashers rich enough for them to crash the economy.
So here's the problem , Communism is a utopia , capitalism is the wild west , no system at all is anarchy , so what we are left with?
Anyhow I think as well as capitalism worked for the west for some time it has to fundamentally change , if not for all the reasons it's bad then surely for the reasons hat are about to come , reasons such widely hated men in the west like Marx spoke about hundreds of years ago , one of them is already happening and happening fast , robots are taking over manufacturing and soon I believe not even a janitor will be needed because quite frankly why ? A robot can work without pauses without vacations without social benefits without a raise in wage without health insurance and can go on for years and only needs maintenance, so obviously it's the option to go for.
And let's face it all these people working low wage jobs in manufacturing if those jobs will go away what else they will do ? go and farm their own land and simply live to eat ? No we are way past that state , we are quite frankly too many for that. They can't suddenly educate themselves to a higher level or become smarter just like that.I think the black protests are a good sign of what can happen , ok the blacks protesting right now do it for a different reasons and in many cases their poverty is due to their own lack of morale and the lifestyle they have chosen and as such I condemn them or those who live that way but what if suddenly people of all races are in this position of poverty and very low freedom for a legitimate reason which is the same for all races?
Modern factories have the tendency for less and less workers and as I have noticed that , the higher the tech in a given factory the less workers required.
Anyway I wonder how manufacturing will look like when AI arrives , could humans finally then leave the working and focus on higher issues like philosophy , science , arts , but again if they remain in their intellectual capacity what kind of focus can they possibly come up with , rather they will be left like unnecessary garbage.
Ok this is getting too long and I have a feeling no one is reading these anymore.