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"The world is a giant resort for 1000 rich people; the rest of us are staff"
Stuck with me
What is this from?
Kinda reminds me of a planet in the game Endless Sky which had rich people go to it for retiring and the only other people were the staff at the resort planet.
Governments should not aim to be profitable. Full stop. Their goal should be to just eek by with enough funding to stay afloat and the rest should go to public services.
Government having lots of money only does good for those in power.
I actually think government should be in some amount of debt as it means they are actively building new stuff for the people but also like only a little and because of infrastructure development not just military budget bloom for billion dollar planes that dont get built.
That would be nice.
But then you get another outside government to come and annex them.
search for China annexes Nepal - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60288007
I didn't read this particular article. It just came from a search and my words are from memory.
This is only for convenience in case you are being lazy to search.
Ideally you^[problem being, there is no "you" that will manage that] have to manage the 2 parameters:
- profitability for anyone trying to annex the country
- Your military power needs to scale with GDP and exploitable geographical resources to protect from outside threats
- But the more money/power the government gets, the greater the internal threat (corruption mostly)
- QoL of citizens
The us government hands much of our taxes directly to the rich every year. Directly like oil and gas and farm subsidies and contracts to the defense industry… or indirectly like food stamps for wal mart workers. The rich don’t want to pay taxes cause they’re the ones who GET most of the tax money. (Yes I know Medicare and entitlements are a large portion of federal spending.)
...and actively disables and undermines competition which cannot be absorbed or acquired.
Yep, better to go back to mercantile & pre-mercantile economic systems of feudalism & before. Shit was way better then.
Indeed, only systems designed to enrich the already rich have the possibility of existing, of course! Anything else is obviously delusions dreamed up by dirty red commie bastards.
Or, hear me out, you could just have a good HR department even if you have to group up to demand rights.
Why you got to throw everything away like that? There can be/are good businesses.
I've never heard of a good HR department. Are you suggesting a better government less susceptible to government failure? Or a review of serious, scholarly work in political economy or public choice pertaining to these questions? That would be a refreshing change.
Most of the time, criticisms on here boil down to "capitalism is the worst system except for all the others we've tried". No insights, just opinions regurgitating muddled takes on dated philosophy.
Milton Hershey was apparently pretty awesome to his employees, built an entire town that was locally situated to have public transport, every house had amenities and he built free schools and theaters and more. His water reservoir is even a public garden.
Seems like it didnt last but hey they tried for a while there.
Also i once worked for a company that raised my pay equal for every employee we were down by until we rehired back up. That was awesome.
Benevolent, philanthropic businesses & business magnates are possible as are benevolent kings & dictators.
To not "throw everything away", that doesn't suggest how to keep the integrity of government to regulate capitalism or any successful economy.
So you want 1 random person on the internet to solve all the worlds problems for you?
I'll ruminate on it when im next in the shower and i have again forgotten my Bluetooth speaker.
No, just that the observation that benevolence exists applies as much to worse economic systems.
Your thought may not apply distinctly to capitalism. Is it possible economic influence from any type of economy would also corrupt susceptible governments? Have you considered perhaps the problem lies more in the structural types of governments susceptible to influence by special interests that don't serve the majority?
McCarthyism essentially never ended in America or this would be common knowledge everyone repeats in casual conversation
This is “crazy talk” and “nonsense” because critical thinking has been made illegal in America for decades
Also common knowledge: Communism is worse. Talk about fast-tracking authoritarianism.
lol almost everyone who says “communism is worse” has no common knowledge at all
Most cannot even define what capitalism or communism even is, nevermind talking about socialism instead
McCarthyism has done irreversible damage to “common knowledge” itself
There's how you define things, and then there's how they work in practice. If you're just going for the tired "Communism hasn't been properly tried yet" then I will submit that it never will be.
I'm all for regulated capitalism. That's what's done in some of the more "socialist" countries that exist today. But the idea that you can have a functioning system where the market sets none of the prices is laughable.
communism = centrist Democratic positions??? /s
Please expand because as it is right now, your comment is laughable and one would think you're just ignorant
TBF, so does socialism
If your understanding of socialism is entirely based on imperial capitalist propaganda, then sure, why not.
Governments are also ok with pushing AI so hard cause just like a business they are trying to replace the workforce to save money.
This breaks community rules. No politics. I hope I'm not the first person to report it.
Edit: the downvoters haven't read the community rules, or don't care. Fuck y'all. The rules literally use the word capitalism as an example of what isn't allowed in a post.
Hate towards capitalism has priority over rules.
L shower-thought
I have long existential showers or ones were i sing and have no thoughts. No inbetween I'm sorry.
Quite politically charged for an existential shower methinks. And this comm has rules against that
Capitalism has no borders nor nationality, methinks
Sorry immediate response, anyways sorry if it is darker than you think appropriate
Not really darker per se. Just not the typical shower thought vibe.
I get your post though. Sorry for any misunderstanding.
I am told my humor is dark and my outlook bleak, but i will try to have a funner shower thought next time.
But i also think that this isnt political but just true. Like regardless of if you think its right or not.
~~Countries become about what they can produce or provide, and that means a workforce maintained to continue to provide the products.~~
~~And those that own capital can either be state or private thus negating picking a side~~. (Oh god that's worse, i am gonna shut up)
Im gonna try and bird law my way out of this.
Bro's all over the place...
But fr, i agree with you, but did you really think about all this in the shower...? Like, you must've been thinking about this for quite a while
I realized it was still off vibe, trying to not go into that topic with you.
And, yeah. I was not kidding about my 2 shower types. I either remember my bluetooth speaker or i lose an hour of my evening. It's a good place to think, i dunno.
100% truth and fact.
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