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Will Capitalism ever be replaced?

Will Capitalism ever be replaced?

  • Yes

    Votes: 15 68.2%
  • No

    Votes: 7 31.8%

  • Total voters
    22
Free, vibrant, creative, and productive.

A hedonistic race isn't much one for innovation and general advancement. Occasional excess is fine, but as the continuous design of life? Sickening at best.

What about you?

how can you truly be free, if you are not free to be "unproductive"? And who decides whats considered hedonistic? some kind of church?
 
how can you truly be free, if you are not free to be "unproductive"? And who decides whats considered hedonistic? some kind of church?


You're free to laze if you want, the point is you shouldn't aim to do that. You literally asked me what humanity should ideally strive for and I gave you an answer. How you went from that to people being a slave to "productivity" is beyond me.
 
True. Capitalism has been the driving force. That is the downfall of socialism. There is no carrot hanging in front of you to keep you going forward. Without reward there is no reason to venture.

Yes and no. The truth is we have been a mixed economic model (some market economics, some planned economics) for a very long time now. All it really comes down to is where we are on the scale. But the mention of "socialism" tends to be a misnomer, odds are the politician in question is not talking about government total ownership of the means of production, distribution, and absolute controlling the means of exchange. Besides, we have installed elements of socialistic type policies also for a very long time now and all it really means is those planned economic elements that make up our mixed model.

You are going to have to do better than the yearbook answer to capitalism and socialism with me, I don't buy into the rhetoric and have no problems challenging people on this.
 
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