• treefrog@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Capitalism is a domination based economic strategy that’s killing most of the life on this planet.

    There’s also partnership based economic strategies that probably would be more in harmony with the earth as well as other human beings, like cooperatives, non-profits, and of course socialism etc.

    So, I guess as far as domination based strategies go, Capitalism is very efficient. And offers a veil of autonomy that feudalism and slavery didn’t. But it’s only a veil. The rich get richer, the poor relatively poorer. And while the planet burns, most human beings are still slaves to their paychecks while the oligarchs call the shots.

    I don’t see any benefit in this, but you do?

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      9 months ago

      I don’t really understand. Perhaps you’re looking for a net benefit. As I said, things aren’t all bad or all good.

      As you said yourself, Capitalism is very efficient.

      It’s technological or administrative requirements are minimal. If you want to get from a pre-industrial feudal society to a sophisticated modern utopia, you can’t go straight to socialism. We needed capitalism.