daannii@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Op… I don’t feel like I want to say the same thing as others but you realize capitalism causes monopolies .?
And as a 2nd point Ive not seen mentioned because it’s slightly off topic but.
Capitalism encourages unsustainability.
By it’s very nature there is no end goal but growth for the sake of growth.
This can’t happen forever. You understand that right?
We live on a planet with finite resources. And a breaking point for pollution that many believe has already been met.
Capitalism WILL kill this entire planet and everyone on it.
It’s not a theory or a prediction.
It’s absolute. Again, by its very nature, the goals of capitalism is to cut corners to keep producing. To constantly expand. To reduce production costs constantly. (Usually in the form of labor).
Which is not sustainable.
This is why billionaires want more babies. To feed the capitalism machine.
But what we really should be doing is celebrating lower birth rates. We don’t need more humans to be slaves.
We need less humans. And sustainable economies. Sustainable lifestyles.
Machines have reduced the need for human labor a hundred fold. And increased human production by quite a lot. Yet humans are still paid low wages.
Capitalism will continue to exploit human labor.
The more of us there are, the lower value we have.
You ever have a job where they make it clear how replaceable you are? I have. And there are a lot of jobs like that.
True communism is the only system that will save us. Not Russia fake communism. Not China authoritarian fake communism.
I mean legit actual real communism.
Where the workers own the companies.
Not billionaires.
Why do people believe those men deserve to hoard?
I don’t get it. Just watch videos of those losers. They aren’t great men. They don’t deserve to hoard the wealth.
They are rich from harming others. Exploiting. Funding wars and politicians in other countries and our own that allow them to keep exploiting.
Literally. Not figuratively.
This has to stop.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I feel like you’re missing the economic system vs. the government system. Those are two separate entities that must be controlled for.
Mu point here is that capitalism is a fucking mess, with no government controls. Of course it is! As with any economic system.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Uh… Government controls the economic system by laws and enforcement of said laws.
dontmindmehere@programming.dev 4 days ago
politics and economy are not separate worlds. capital, monopoly or not, is political power greater than any vote or government seat
what sense does it make to keep the ruling class in check while letting them keep their power?
can you make a benevolent mafia by taxing the racket and breaking up mafia monopolies?
loonsun@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Well yeah any economic system requires government oversight to be effective but that’s because there isn’t really a decoupling of government and economics. Our current governments around the world are primarily representative democratic nation states and they are neoliberal capitalist institutions. These are not separate, both have evolved alongside each other and we are currently seeing them crack under pressure together. There is no point in making this distinction at the macro level.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Surprise! The system of accumulating power was used to gain power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government to let them gain more power to influence the government… Ad infinitum.
Government regulation of capitalism is fundamentally impossible in the long term, unless you lock it down early into something barely recognizable as capitalism. That ship has sailed long long ago.