How autocracy works, a brief summary.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I think, in it's purest form, capitalism is a pretty good model. I think the problem with it, like with pretty much everything else, is that it ends up manipulated by the whole of mankind. The species has taken a workable system for generating operating capital which allows businesses to grow, employ people, produce products and services, and generally allow for the improvement of the quality of life in...uh...civilization, I guess. What has the species done with it? Turned it into a fucking casino. The system has been taken over by day traders, hedge funders, algorithmic computer trading systems, etc. Long-term "investors" like some of us, have always been in it not only to have a place for their retirement funds to grow, but who are the participants who contribute to capitalism functioning as it should.

Mankind will fuck up a pleasant little wet dream.

Pure capitalism? A creation of capitalist ideology, widely internalized. But capitalism as we know it is an evolution of culture, defined by statute and custom. No part of it is found in nature, physics, or revealed will of God. It's most extreme tenants, that owners own ALL surplus value created by operations, and that material return to owners is the ONLY thing that matters, could be treated as changeable on the whim of any lawmaking authority. If the collective mind was opened up to it.