?

What do you consider artificial value

And what's authentic value

I don't consider that artificial

you realize you can choose to make something else 🤷

and besides

whats wrong with there being value in rarer things?

I might be left leaning

but i definitely wouldn't say that communism is the answer!

not pure communism*

I'm from cali~

I'm also in the most liberal area

undergoing the most liberal education

in the US

:voke:

whoops

nononono, you have a wrong impression of america

*some areas are right wing

but i happen to be in an incredibly left leaning area

where the minimum wage is like 20 dollars

but as a former economics major

I think that under a modified capitalism

we can maximize overall utility

and shouldn't maximized happiness

be the primary goal of the government?

I'd rather be the world be happier as a whole and progressing towards greater levels of happiness

than any other situation

just because the majority of the world is capitalistic

doesn't mean that anything not considered capitalistic is communism o.o

communism requires all property to be owned by the populace

but in reality you can even have an in between situation

nonono, in theory you definitely could

extreme example

but if half the means of production were publically owned

and the other half was privately owned

that wouldn't fall into communism or capitalism 🤔

i'm not saying it would be in between communism and capitalism

i'm saying that it wouldn't fall into either category

ah, I articulated my statement poorly

my apologies

I should have been more specific :D

i aint a commie

wot

but china became more powerful after it introduced capitalism to its economy 🤔

in fact, capitalism made china more powerful!

hail capitalism

seig heil!!!

Marx is dumb