Sunday, October 6, 2024
Impending Death Surge - Governance Is Economics
In the Beginning, Civilization was made due to property and law to adjudicate its division. Not all early civilizations were Slavery. People dont NEED property to survive and prosper but a subset seems instinctively drawn to it. We've tried all kinds of alternative forms to capitalism; Anarchism, Communism and Socialism. None has succeeded in a democracy to scale, but that doesnt mean they can't. Frankly, humans need to be able to safely experiment to find the way that works best for them and over time, the way will work.
We know certain things do not work because we've seen them fail. State Communism is centrally planned which is inherently less efficient because information is limited and any degree of flaws at the central planners reflects on the system as a whole. Morever, all State Communism to date has been at the point of a sword and that cannot last; fear only motivates people for so long. People can be motivated by things other than greed, but dictatorship encourage people to lie to survive and that leads to corruption because a shadow market and shadow government exist which has no law. Every black market thus far that I have read of in history was a capitalist one; not just because capitalism is what people are used to but also because its decentralized and easy to implement.
What I am saying, is that all the constitutionial theory and law theory in the world does us no good if we dont build a system of government to protect us economically. We know and there are plenty of evidence that capitalism eventually creates unregulated and almost unstoppable corruption and stratification. If you DONT have flat government, your system; no matter how many checks and balances you create is amendable to corruption. And corruption is the death of democracy.
Ergo, your constition, your system of government needs to start with economic regulation. The legitimacy by which it governs must ensure the well being of the vast majority of its citizens and if it fails to do that, then it needs to automatically course correct. There is never a situation where a government that only benefits the minority is a good government. And a capitalist government or capitalist economic system simply does not.
Climate change alone proves Capitalism does not work. Even now, capitalist companies and corrupted capitalist parties and capitalist politicians dont just drill but drill faster and faster. Clear and objective evidence that anyone with a memory and not deluded by bullshit can see that every year gets warmer and the weather gets worse. Capitalism is responsible for this. And as such, Capitalism must be held entirely in check by any system of government that works for the benefit of its citizens.
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