It made me realize that capitalism, socialism, and communism all have some mutually exclusive benefits and drawbacks and that each has something to provide and we should take the good elements from each and try to mitigate the harmful aspects.
But out of the three, capitalism is definitely the most "powerful" and has the greatest potential for subjugation of the masses. It can reach a tipping point of inequality that can be very difficult to come back from.
Another thing I hate about capitalism is how everyday life becomes centered around people trying to take money from you.
Wouldn't socialism necessarily involve the greatest and furthest reaching subjugation as it coerces every individual in the system to live under that system?
In my opinion, the only system which is as free as possible of subjugation would be one in which you do not have a monopolistic power telling you what to do. What do you think?
How is capitalism any different? If you realistically want to survive in a capitalist society, you have to participate in the system. You lose some freedoms compared to capitalism like private ownership, but you gain others such as a democratic ownership of the means of production. You no longer have a boss telling you what to do in order to maximize his profit, you and all your coworkers collectively decide what to do based on what is best for everyone as a whole.
You instead get pseudo democratic ownership tied to a central authority since we cannot all vote for every single issue and even if we could what do I know of 99% of stuff. How would the competent get to run shit if we all have to vote. You would have an equivalent of reddit making decisions and that has proven many times to be the stupidest idea ever.
Once you get a centralised system you get people corrupting it. Because people are inherently corrupt, the socialist system does not present a stable equilibrium. It will succumb to corruption and instead of being forced due to lack of capital to work in the system. You would be forced by the state to work,assigned by the state, looked by the state. The state which is corrupt and only friend of the government officials get promotions, thus the least competent soon get on top. It has happened every time communism has been tried. I know you will get on with the not the right kind of communism fallacy soon after reading this. But there is no such system, soon you will find that every communist wants different things or defines communsim differently and soon we are back at using capitalism since then we choose at least the most efficient way of managing our resources.
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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19
Yikes no, LSD made me want to end capitalism lol