Raithere said:
And here is why you are wrong:
There are no pure democracies and there are no purely capitalistic economies.
A capitalistic system does not rely upon desperation, only upon private property and trade.
You have a tree and I have a chicken. You make a chair out of wood and trade it to me for a dozen eggs. That is capitalism.
There is a publicly owned tree and a publicly owned chicken. You make chairs; I feed the chicken and collect the eggs. We give this to the government or the cooperative we work for and they give us each a chair and some eggs. This is socialism.
There is a publicly owned tree and a publicly owned chicken. You make chairs; I feed the chicken and collect the eggs. We give this to the government. The government gives the chairs and eggs to who it decides needs them most. This is communism.
I don't know what an "affluence based system" is. It sounds from your description like communism except that apparently no one has to work. Who makes the chairs and feeds the chickens I have no idea. Maybe it's the underpants gnomes.
An affluence based system is a system of intelligence and affluence that does not rely on desperation.
These are the results of Capitalism:
First. Capitalism is a system in which all means of production are privately owned.
1. Capitalism perpetuates a society that is codependent on private resource owners. It is as much a psychological dependence as it is a physical dependence. Because the society is dependent on private entities, there is no institutional guarantee of basic human necessities. Although some capitalist countries at least guarantee protection of a certain level of human rights, others guarantee much lesser protection of human rights.
2. Capitalism creates a competitive market that exhausts LMH for the sake of marketing over the sake of:
-Protecting the earth.
-Populism.
Capitalism is based on a very primitive “survival of the fittest” model in which self interest must be placed above human rights in order for it to function.
3. Artificial scarcity. Capitalism suppresses technology, and ensures scarcity. It creates a false sense of economics based on a false perception of a scarce planet. Capitalism ensures desperation.
Either way, your descriptions of the 3 systems are inaccurate.
1. Private entities produce shirts and coconuts, and trade among themselves. State does not produce anything, and does not participate in trade including weapons, oil, and drugs. Individuals have no guarantee of First World standards, and therefore, are unequally obligated into labor based on self interest and survival of the fittest. Individuals create coconuts and shirts for their own profit, market them, and trade them off to whoever can afford them the most. There is no control over amount required, so all surpluses are trashed. High degrees of LMH are used to produce tons of tons over tons of goods that end up in the trash using more LMH to handle the disposal and management of waste.
2. Socialism: The state controls production of essential consumer goods. Essentials and their amounts are decided by the state who trades with the individual. The state decides how much individuals should get paid, and how much goods should cost. In the end, the individual is obligated to labor. Labor is furthermore created by the state out of thin air so that all individuals have labor. Individuals are obligated into labor based on what the state believes is best.
3. Communism. There is no private ownership. There is no individual apart from the collective. State control production of all goods. All goods are distributed equally among the collective. The state ensures all individuals are working, and decides what work each individual does.
