Comment by komali2
11 hours ago
Capitalism already is a poor allocator of human effort, resources, and energy, why lock in on this specifically? There's entire professions that are essentially worthless to society that exist only to perpetuate the inherent contradictions of this system, why not focus more on all that wasted human effort? Or the fact that everyone has to do some arbitrary sellable labor in order to justify their existence, rather than something they might truly enjoy or might make the world better?
> Capitalism already is a poor allocator of human effort, resources, and energy, why lock in on this specifically?
It's absolutely best allocator of human effort there is. It has some problems but compared to alternatives it's almost perfect.
No it is the best of what we know.
There’s something else out there that nobody has the imagination to personally figure it out and get alignment toward it.
It can also be true that capitalism is transitory to get to a place where much of the capital one needs is invented.
Well of course the discussion is only about systems that actually exist, not ones that not only not exist, but also can't be imagined by anyone.
Looking around, the evidence doesn't seem to support this conclusion. 50% of food thrown away, yet people go hungry. Every privatized industry diminishes in quality and reach. Selects and optimizes for profit rather than for human need.
> Looking around, the evidence doesn't seem to support this conclusion.
It absolutely does if you look at facts and not "vibes". There are less people starving now than ever now and it's a giant, giant difference. We are tackling more and more diseases thanks to big pharma. Even semi-socialist countries such as China have opened markets. Basically the only countries that do not implement capitalist solutions are the ones you'd never want to live in such as North Korea or Cuba (funny thing - even China urged Cuba to free their markets).