In a world where certain questions can't be asked, it's no wonder there are no clear answers. The elephant in the room is #capitalism, but mentioning it is a taboo. It's like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces or painting a picture without the right colors. Without acknowledging the root cause of many issues, we're left grasping at straws, hoping for a solution that may never come.
"The elephant in the room is #capitalism, but mentioning it is a taboo."
Since when? People have been promoting and criticising it openly for at least a hundred years; really, much longer.
@AlexanderKingsbury there is very little serious criticism of capitalism in western mainstream, and there's certainly no serious discussion about abandoning capitalism, or how that could be practically accomplished.
If you mean that screaming into the void while not being able to affect any tangible change is allowed, then sure.
There's plenty of serious discussion about it. Whether or not that discussion is "mainstream" is a vague question, but even if it's not, that hardly makes the topic "taboo"; just uncommon.
If you feel like you're screaming into the void, well, perhaps what you're screaming simply does not resonate with most of the people you're screaming at.
I mean, you're more than welcome to keep trying what you have been doing. How's it been working out?
I never imagined you were looking for anyone's approval. You just seem to claim you're effectively "shouting into the void". I guess if you find that satisfying and worthwhile, you do you.
That may be part of the issue right there. Not a lot of people regard it as "despotic" at all. People aren't going to be super receptive to ideas about how to get rid of something they don't see as a problem.
And if you want to respond to that with ineffective conversational tactics and scream into the void, again, you do you. I submit for your consideration that it's probably better to talk with people rather than scream at them, if you want things to improve.
You're the one who compared what you do with screaming into the void. I'm not upset at all; I simply took you at your word.
"Sealioned"? Nonsense. That's the sort of ad hominem attack made by someone who has no actual response to the substance of the conversation, so they resort to attacking the person.
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Want serious discussion, discuss this without blythely dismissing it. Here's where you can find an alternative to traditional capitalism:
This describes an economic system that can outcompete traditional capitalism in a market economy in virtually any industry. It will play by all the same rules and laws used by traditional capitalists. Once it is in place, it will gradually replace traditional capitalism.
You can claim my discussion is not serious all you want; I'm not the one responding with "okay" and nothing else. I don't claim you're promoting communism because A. I understand the general meaning of that term and B. I'm not generally in the habit of claiming things I don't think are true.
I agree. There is a clear delineation. Neither, however, is part of capitalism. Capitalism is not a legal system, it is an economic one. The only legal ideas you could draw out of it are that its tenets should be protected, but that's hardly it being a legal system. It just demonstrates that a legal system is necessary to protect it.
@AlexanderKingsbury @yogthos
I don't want to get buried in the semantics but the laws are probably part of the political aspect of capitalism.
My point is that capitalism is proscribed by regulations and penal statutes. For some in capitalism, those are their only bounds.
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