Capitalism in its western form have some restrictions. Some ways of making profit accounted as crime.
- Killing competitor is a crime.
- Theft is a crime.
- Patent infringement is a crime.
- Insider trading is a crime. And so on.
So, capitalism could have restrictions.
What if there could be another capitalism, with another, slightly different set of restrictions?
Say,
- Killing competitor is a crime.
- Theft is a crime.
- Usury is a crime.
- Profiteering (all that stock games) is a crime.
- Intentional limiting of customer in a bought product usage (all that "planned obsolescence", "usage licenses" and "authorized service only") is a crime. with keeping all other freedoms of private business you could find in western capitalism.
Will it still be a capitalism? Do capitalism you defend should have usury and profiteering as essential part of it?
Just asking for a friend who think that western type of capitalism is doomed and sooner or later will be completely demolished by insane elites. So we will have to build new type of capitalism, that have no vulnerabilites that allow creation and existence of elites. :)
What rules and restrictions such capitalism should have to avoid a core possibility of elite formation?
Take in mind, that under "elite" I mean parasitic bastards, like current ones, not a meritocratic elite, like best engineers or best business organizers.
Wrong. You need capitol to rent
Create it FROM WHAT? Thin fucking air? That's more of a pipedream than anything a communist dumb shit would say.
I thought the most obvious would be a bartering system but you still need some metric to compare items.
It might work with two people finding eachother in the desert. One has water and the other has bread, but as a "system" with more than 2 people it doesn't fucking work.
Yeah, with jews stealing everything and putting ethnic Russians in camps. You're full of shit. Communists still needed money, just because they starved citizens doesn't mean they didn't need and use money. All of your communist leaders were rich.
Go back to cannibalism then if that's what your dumb ass wants. People didnt need money in bolshevist Russia because they fucking ATE EACHOTHER.
You will be provided bed and food for free if you are a good obeying citizen doing you everyday mandatory work.
You will not believe, but you could synthesise a lot of things literally from thin air if you have enough energy and appropriate technology. You again will not believe ne, but even plants do it without any problems. There is also soil around to use.
Also, there is such thing like fusion, that allow making any substance you need, if, again, you have enough energy and apropriate tech to do it.
You could literally make anything form thin air. Two questions - energy and tech. And, somehow, authorities trying hard to deprive you from both.
There was attempts in late USSR to build such global system for making global barter possible. But USSR was crushed and that research was buried.
Works easily. With more than 2 people. First have potatoes and want spade, second have spade and want honey, third have honey and want potatoes. Easy as fuck if they are smart enough to just share about their needs and existing commodities to each other. First give potatoes to third, third give honey to second, second give spade to first. I witnessed much more complex schemes among businesses in early 1990s when the money cost nothing in crashed USSR. First Russian stocks was barter ones, where multiple businesses shared their needs and commodities and finding solutions for their problems. If there would heve been powerful enough computers and networks, it could work flawlessly. However, authorities have no ability to tax that deals, so barter was prohibited.
However, barter is not necessary. In modern world the most valuable thing is energy. Everybody need it and, what is the most important, you could mathematically calculate the "price" of any commodity in energy. Energy unit could be the "money" for trade.
How? You exactly describe that two marxism casts - Jews who gain the profit and Russians that work in camps for food.
Fascinating to see such rant as a reaction to simple and obvious assumptions and examples. :) What's the cause? Are you shure that money is not something sacral for you?