socialism Anonymous 309881
what do you think about socialism?
I find it kind of convincing lately… i got really into economics a couple years ago and have been learning more and more and now I feel like I really agree with it. Capitalism is making increasingly abstracted products bc the production of basic goods is solved and the return on investment for those is almost zero at this point. Why couldn't we just replace those kinds of businesses with a state-run monopoly with computers predicting & dictating the supply? Why do we let people gain so much power that they can lobby the government into lending itself to their interests only??
I feel that things in the world lately have gotten super weird and rich people are way too powerful whereas a lot of normal people are living sad lives. Men seem to lean right wing overall but they're kind of idiot narcissists and I don't trust them to be doing anything except looking out for their own interests.
Anonymous 309900
Having everyone take part to look after each other is a good idea. However, it only works if producers aren't given the treatment of the workers in John Galt's old factory, so everyone is fairly contributing and benefitting, which does not always come out that way in practice. This is especially true where service jobs too greatly outnumber production jobs. Goods have to come from somewhere in order to be given to someone else. Also, making the government a big powerful hub that determines and regulates absolutely everything is just asking to get fucked over and also invites corruption in. Centralization just means one big, fat concentrated point of failure. Capitalism is fine as long as it's reined in morally and applied intelligently, without unfairly loading things in big corporations' favor (which big gov likes to do).
Most of the problems we're having are from debased fiat currency, which fucks over anything it touches in the long run by stealing future value to use in the present. We're in the years that were stolen from. What system you're under is kind of a secondary detail.
Anonymous 309911
I just don't have faith in the government to be in charge of all distribution and I quadruple lack faith in computer programs picking up the slack. Especially not this government.
Socialism is just a Beach Boys lyric to me.
>Wouldn't it be nice if we had free health care
Yeah it would but that's not gonna happen. Our military and intel sector only became as big as it did in an effort to stomp out people who think that way globally.
I will say I agree that the West needs to consume far less and the third world is entitled to far more of the world's resources, but thats more commie shit than socialist sentiment.
