Land, art, entertainment, ideas. Man does not live by bread alone.
But Land is not in short supply, and artists and musicians would have no need to sell their work as they would have nothing to spend their money on.
It takes a leap of imagination to imagine a society with limitless resources and no need for money, but it is an interesting exercise and Iain M. Banks has done it very well, I commend his sci-fiction novels and I am not a fan of the genre as an whole.
You have it backwards friend. Socialism and social policies are dying across the globe via the retrenchment of Keynsian compromises. Unadulterated capital mobility is also spelling the death for socialism as its now almost an impossibility to use a fordist model for national economics without getting stagflation no matter how committed the politicians are. (See 1970s France under the socialists)
If by longer term, you mean some 1000+yrs in the future after civilization has collapsed and the world is ruled by giant radioactive ants, then sure. I guess we would have to pool our resources to fight our 6legged overlords
Exploitation is relative to the theortical framework you're using. If you have your Marxist hat on, then you are absolutely correct. Even in the boom of returns and rights for workers during the golden age of tripartite corporatism, it is still exploitation of the workers in marxists eyes as workers are generating surplus value but arnt being paid for it. This is known as labour theory.
If you are a functionalist, surplus value doesnt exist, ergo, exploitation doesnt exist because profit derives from the collection of dues earned by the non-worker aspects of the production and selling process. So a business owner's $$ comes from the risk he partook in to get the business started as well as innovation in selling techniques, management etc etc. This view of value is known as marginalization theory.
Personally, I think both are bogus as they they rely on fallacies, and you get hilarious errors if applied to the world non-post hoc.
You are way ahead of me, my views are much more organic. I just see an inequity and it doesn't sit well. I would probably fall into the labour theory side of it. However, I do believe innovation should be rewarded, but also think capitalism supresses innovation as much as it rewards it.
Anyway, I'd like to know more of the fallacies and hilarity you mention.
If by longer term, you mean some 1000+yrs in the future after civilization has collapsed and the world is ruled by giant radioactive ants, then sure. I guess we would have to pool our resources to fight our 6legged overlords
I for one will welcome our six legged overlords and help them impliment their Formician plans.
You have it backwards friend. Socialism and social policies are dying across the globe via the retrenchment of Keynsian compromises. Unadulterated capital mobility is also spelling the death for socialism as its now almost an impossibility to use a fordist model for national economics without getting stagflation no matter how committed the politicians are. (See 1970s France under the socialists)
If that's true, than I weep for the common man and women and their future. Why? Because Capitalism just doesn’t care about them or the ecology. The only thing Capitalism cares about are profits. Period!!
If that's true, than I weep for the common man and women and their future. Why? Because Capitalism just doesn’t care about them or the ecology. The only thing Capitalism cares about are profits. Period!!
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Have you read the book or it's movie called "The Corporation". It basically diagnoses corporations as sociopaths. Very compelling read and movie...though I liked the book more.
If that's true, than I weep for the common man and women and their future. Why? Because Capitalism just doesn’t care about them or the ecology. The only thing Capitalism cares about are profits. Period!!
There is no entity "Capitalism". There are the varying views of individual capitalists, and I think it is prejudiced to think that they all don't care about the common man and the ecology. This is just as prejudiced as to say that all poor people are thieves.
I say we end prejudice.
eudaimonia,
Mark
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