I didn't meant that there are no rules. I meant that if you dumped a group of people on another planet, in 1000 years they'd probably have capitalism again. It's just one of the the path of least resistance systems that seems obvious at scale. Nobody sat down and designed capitalism. It just kind of happened.
Zarobi
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Damn, that's really lame
Yeah I think a lot of people like it when you address all their text. It's a bit awkward sometimes though on how to actually go about it, like it can seem like a bit of a non-sequitur.
Don't worry you don't seem thirsty :)
The current system is kind of just the default system that nobody really planned out or thought about carefully. Unemployment, suffering, homelessness, inequality, billionaires, etc, are all baked into how it works. But it kind of mostly sorta works good enough that nobody is motivated enough to do anything about it, plus it directly benefits anyone who could do anything about it.
It's rapidly reaching it's limit, though, especially with A.I. and most people's jobs being bullshit. I'm curious what the replacement will be, and I'm hoping the transition isn't too... painful.
Those incentives and motivations suck ass, no offence. Get better incentives.
That kind of sucks ngl
Nothing feels more dehumanising than applying for a job in 2026 with a big company*
I wonder if the grocery store could just hire you directly and cut out the middle man? Like just approach the boss and be like. I need a job. You need worker. Gimme a contract and I'll start tomorrow
I still remember when I saw the Mona Lisa in person. Everyone was facing the opposite direction, using selfie sticks to take a photo of themselves with the tiny painting. Just around the corner was an entire wall sized breathtaking artwork. I think that about sums up humanity.
Why not just put a trading card between your bike spokes like the good old days?
I keep getting fraud alerts and having to sooth my bank account into permitting my groceries. You'd think after the 20th time on the same day with the same price they'd stop flagging my groceries.
Yeah maybe. But I'm not really talking about nomadic ancestral living though. Plenty of villages in the country today are functionally communist, I've lived in one.
What I mean is it seems hard to have a system that has all the stuff we have today, without capitalism appearing at some point. Electricity, computers, trains, huge populations, cities, etc.
I'm trying to say that it's easy to implement, it seems obvious, and it benifits those in power. But it's inefficient and horrible long term and leads to problems. I think all the current laws and policy protecting capitalism were put in place to prop up a dying system. So rather than it being deliberate, I believe it's just a series of reactionary patch jobs that "fix" problems as they come up rather than anyone actually sitting down and designing a good system.