because not everyone can do it alone

so capitalism is the purist form of tit-for-tat

With regards to the history of the Soviet economy at frist it was mostly between free enterprise in the country and full on planned economy. The free enterprise period lasted untill 1926 when the Soviet Union reached pre-war levels of output so then they went full on planned economy which did help industrialize the place but after that the economy grow so quickly that it couldn't be managed any more so it fell apart.

Capitalism isn't the answer to everything?

No wonder Jeopardy didn't call me back

you know what I mean assjack 😛

😂

In a world where human labor is still required to meet basic needs and unpredictable acts of nature can cause unplanned rearrangement of vast ammounts of resources, some form of capitalism is the best we have

@LotheronPrime I think mixed economics are the best system because it still allows free enterprise while still preventing full on mass consumerism.

whats wrong with consumerism though?

I mean, what horror exists in people using money they earned to buy things they want?

and don't say the environment

because public demand has already shifted in favor of not fucking the environment

and corporations responded with their "green initatives"

I think mass consumerism falls apart with mass automation.

mass automation will never be a thing in a way people thing doom and gloom will be

public demand is anything you staple as "a good cause"

think of all the things that weren't automated 100s of years ago and have been for a while and haven't really had an affect

cuz last i checked, LA, the corner stone of "we must do good at all costs" in the west is still full of smog, and combustable engine cars

there will always be soemthing new

@Dr.Wol having just consumerism provides no meaning in life and it leads to people thinking that only profit matters.

I don't see it as a zero sum game

I think when we get better with AI we will start seeing jobs like Pilots, and burger flippers, and grocery store cashiers, etc. going away.

i'll take profit matters above "surviving matters" which is what pretty much any non-capitalist system ends up prioritising

I give this: http://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html

besides, people should find their own meaning in life, its part of being human, its part of being a man!
A man chooses, a slave obeys!

you can either have "no meaning" or "low lifeexpectancy"

which was just 55 or so 100 years ago

LoteronPrime It's because of preservatives in the Twinkies.

I'm sure of it

i dunno, make the friends around you happy, play games and enjoy life seems like a solid meaning to me

also, as JBP points out, meaning is brought from responsibility

good point though, all dem SJW's are irresponsible and feel like they have no meaning

I think society is more inportant than profits for corporations. A society is like the human body, the different parts of the society need to work together for it to work.

well they're responsibilities are misplaced, I think

and many are inheriently projecting

i.e. calling people racists while being racist themselves..

Society IS like a human body,

Feed it good elements and it becomes strong
Feed it bad elements and you end up with diahrrea,

That said, i don't need to fart, to move my arm
So maybe different roads are an option

I think profits for corporations have lead to the rise of charities that can make a difference

like the bill and melinda gates foundation and their African causes, for example

"Racism" or just thinking other races are different from your race is just natural.

that's not what racism is

different is natural