Native Americans lived in greater numbers for many thousands of years without developing capitalism. I think this speaks more to your worldview than reality.
Wealthy people most certainly sat down and designed the systems that allow capitalism to exist. It was not a unconscious effort. Did some things just fall into place? Perhaps but the hyper capitalism we experience now has a ton of law and policy created to allow it to exist the way it does.
A great example of this is the concept of the corporation. It took hundreds of years of lobbying and legal wrangling to get it to the point where they are now. Not time limited, no financial responsibility for shareholders or executives, does not have to be for the public good, personhood, etc.
Yeah maybe. But I’m not really talking about nomadic ancestral living though. Plenty of villages in the country today are functionally communist, I’ve lived in one.
What I mean is it seems hard to have a system that has all the stuff we have today, without capitalism appearing at some point. Electricity, computers, trains, huge populations, cities, etc.
I’m trying to say that it’s easy to implement, it seems obvious, and it benifits those in power. But it’s inefficient and horrible long term and leads to problems. I think all the current laws and policy protecting capitalism were put in place to prop up a dying system. So rather than it being deliberate, I believe it’s just a series of reactionary patch jobs that “fix” problems as they come up rather than anyone actually sitting down and designing a good system.
Native Americans lived in greater numbers for many thousands of years without developing capitalism. I think this speaks more to your worldview than reality.
Wealthy people most certainly sat down and designed the systems that allow capitalism to exist. It was not a unconscious effort. Did some things just fall into place? Perhaps but the hyper capitalism we experience now has a ton of law and policy created to allow it to exist the way it does.
A great example of this is the concept of the corporation. It took hundreds of years of lobbying and legal wrangling to get it to the point where they are now. Not time limited, no financial responsibility for shareholders or executives, does not have to be for the public good, personhood, etc.
Yeah maybe. But I’m not really talking about nomadic ancestral living though. Plenty of villages in the country today are functionally communist, I’ve lived in one.
What I mean is it seems hard to have a system that has all the stuff we have today, without capitalism appearing at some point. Electricity, computers, trains, huge populations, cities, etc.
I’m trying to say that it’s easy to implement, it seems obvious, and it benifits those in power. But it’s inefficient and horrible long term and leads to problems. I think all the current laws and policy protecting capitalism were put in place to prop up a dying system. So rather than it being deliberate, I believe it’s just a series of reactionary patch jobs that “fix” problems as they come up rather than anyone actually sitting down and designing a good system.