We have been under the control of Capitalists for at least the last 150 years, and humanity hasn’t gone extinct yet
This can be said about literally any economy or social system ever…
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QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoThat’s silly. It worked great for centuries. Now we are facing a new situation where it does not work and creates problems it cannot solve which is why we should look to a new system.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Im not claiming we need to perpetuate capitalism. Im saying the opposite because it did work really well and brought a ton of people out of poverty. Now it’s killing the planet and we need a collectivist solution to that problem. Capitalusm is by nature not collectivist and will never address our environmental collapse.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just want to be the nerd that says if the system started and worked well enough to sustain itself to a point, and then stopped working, that would be a failed experiment right.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No because governments are not experiments. There are times when differing system’s strengths make for a better choice than others. For example representative democracy works great when almost everyone can read and do math. Representative democracy is a shitshow if most have no education because you need an informed population to make sound choices.