No tomato throwing here because I just wish it were true because it sounds simple. But I just don’t think it works. So long as work exploitation and the profit motive persist, any gains will always be precarious. I mean, it’s much harder to build something than to tear it down, as we also see with the DOGE monkey business. We have to win every time but they have to win once.
So I would argue that certain fundamental moral imperatives would have to be codified as inalienable rights, constitutionally and declaratively. So for example it should come to be considered illegal and morally repugnant to rent humans, just as it is to buy them. It should also be considered illegal hoarding and gross to pass down intergenerational ownership of capital (“passive assets”, “investments”, and the like, I’m not talking about personal property).
But the thing is once stuff like that are enacted, there is no longer anything to be called “capitalism” any more.
Democratic socialism with a heavy fucking leash on Capitalism is likely the best system.
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No tomato throwing here because I just wish it were true because it sounds simple. But I just don’t think it works. So long as work exploitation and the profit motive persist, any gains will always be precarious. I mean, it’s much harder to build something than to tear it down, as we also see with the DOGE monkey business. We have to win every time but they have to win once.
So I would argue that certain fundamental moral imperatives would have to be codified as inalienable rights, constitutionally and declaratively. So for example it should come to be considered illegal and morally repugnant to rent humans, just as it is to buy them. It should also be considered illegal hoarding and gross to pass down intergenerational ownership of capital (“passive assets”, “investments”, and the like, I’m not talking about personal property).
But the thing is once stuff like that are enacted, there is no longer anything to be called “capitalism” any more.