10-31-2014, 11:26 PM
The first and third you describe are not valid categories.
The first and third examples of belief vs fact or the examples of communism?
You could say the regimes in China and Russia aren't "real communism", just as your dad not having enough money isn't "real capitalism".
But then your whole argument for capitalism goes out the window doesn't it? You said that capitalism led to the greatest increase in standard of living, but if there's no "real capitalism" then how do the two statements co-exist? If your argument is that capitalism gets better as it becomes more pure, what is your recommendation to make the current capitalism more pure?
Community sharing has existed for thousands of years in tribes and small villages, but try to build a complex governmental institution out of it.
Then don't... simple as that.
I wait for the day the amazing arrives.
I'm pretty certainly it won't happen in our lifetimes... I'm not saying that as a pessimist or in anger, but as someone who thinks most people are just drifting through life, cruise control, questioning nothing that really matters... just arguing over shallow things, maybe like we are now...
The first and third examples of belief vs fact or the examples of communism?
You could say the regimes in China and Russia aren't "real communism", just as your dad not having enough money isn't "real capitalism".
But then your whole argument for capitalism goes out the window doesn't it? You said that capitalism led to the greatest increase in standard of living, but if there's no "real capitalism" then how do the two statements co-exist? If your argument is that capitalism gets better as it becomes more pure, what is your recommendation to make the current capitalism more pure?
Community sharing has existed for thousands of years in tribes and small villages, but try to build a complex governmental institution out of it.
Then don't... simple as that.
I wait for the day the amazing arrives.
I'm pretty certainly it won't happen in our lifetimes... I'm not saying that as a pessimist or in anger, but as someone who thinks most people are just drifting through life, cruise control, questioning nothing that really matters... just arguing over shallow things, maybe like we are now...