Thursday, July 21, 2011

Pros and Cons of Different Societies

Capitalism pros and cons:
  • Over time in capitalism things become made out of cheaper and cheaper materials and also become made badly so that they break on purpose called "engineered obsolescence". Supposedly capitalism leads to innovation, and invention, and easier life, but really it doesn't lead to an easier life if you have to work 40 hours a week or more nowadays, just to pay the bills, and keep rebuying things that break or run out, and this continues until the day you die. Also these inventions that "make life easier" over time are made cheaper and cheaper and to break easier so it becomes a badly made invention through the natural course of capitalism. This would even take place in pure capitalism and is the main flaw in even pure capitalism.
  • Also capitalism is sort of like democracy because you are voting on a product by paying for it so products that nobody buys go out of business but the thing is that advertising is what decides what is bought most. And since only rich people can afford advertising then that is the rich people win scenario and innovation and change is harder
  • Right now we have one of the biggest transfers of wealth in history from the housing collapse. But it transfering from the poor to the rich. Only people with 20,000$ can buy a foreclosed house. Most people are too poor to make good investments.
  • When your hands are busy with busy work that never ends then you have no time to think and be creative and use your innate human ingenuity so our entire population that is working all day long could be thinking and inventing instead.
  • Also capitalism reacts to changes in population. If the whole population is trying to save money and also work 70 hours a week then guess what? You also have to do that in order to keep up with the competition. Labor costs go down and product costs of different products change.
  • When jobs are transported over sees guess what? Unemployment goes up and you start to get paid less and you have to go to school again and now more competition in all the other fields means everybody as a whole gets payed less from high workforce low job availability.
  • Monopolies.


Democracy:
  • The minority are slave to the majority. This is how America started and is probably why we had black people as slaves. Because they were the minority.

Socialism/Dictatorships/the Ruling Class:
  • Always springs up from capitalism as the government taking money to protect the people from outsiders, and from themselves, and eventually turns into dictatorship and martial law. The ruling class make more and more rules over time to get more and more control. We have ultimate power to control other humans now, the only reason is for money and to enslave people. People are then a commodity or possession.
  • You wouldn't need slaves though if things were all free some day. Socialism and dictatorships are basically another word for slavery. "The borrower is slave to the lender". And the government is a loan you will never pay off. This is exactly how the mob operates.
  • Rules and regulations and laws and contracts and EVERYTHING are made infinitely complex on purpose to dissuade you from ever even attempting anything and to keep you under control. This is call "Bureaucracy".

Egalitarianism, Tribal culture, and Native Americans pros and cons:
  • This is a static society. Things don't really change over a long time. They just have food, shelter, and community. In there words: When work needs to get done we all work, when food is plentiful we all eat. They would volunteer when things needed fixing or when food needed to get collected then it gets done quickly and efficiently and they rest for the rest of the week. They each only use what they need, so the resources and environment didn't get damaged. With the free time each one of them had time to think and be creative and craft new things.
  • They say that if you didn't have to work then nothing would ever get invented but in reality, I invent or research and develop things because I'm bored and enjoy it, even though I will never get paid. Also necessity is the mother of invention and if there ever really is a need such as way to catch food then we as humans would invent and did invent, or just fiddle around with things for fun.
  • Really experiments and even entertainment people do for free for you to watch for free also as proven by youtube, as well as blogs and discussion groups to solve problems. I'd venture to say that this is actually better entertainment most of the time also.
  • We would also through natural logic instead of capitalism, develop things to never break and out of better materials, so that we wouldn't have to make them again, most notably, houses which are made too complex and wrong and out of the cheapest materials known to man.
  • Without working 40 hours a week, you would have time for philosophy, art, science, learning, stories, entertainment, games dancing, potlucks, BBQ's every week, building, traveling, visiting family, and having time for friends which is the most important.
  • If you steal something you might start a fight or worse get killed. But why steal when someone will show you how to make something or you could trade for it. And that's only for new inventions that nobody has ever seen before. When everybody already has everything they need then why steal? This was their mentality.
  • Hopefully no motive for crime or for slavery if everything is free and no work to do anyway. I don't ever remember reading about slaves in any Native American culture ever even the Mayans.
  • Some resources are scarcer than others so in capitalism the price goes up, but when you only use what you need and there are not monopolies then it's free, and you just go get it yourself when it's needed. They also had people who would travel from town to town to bring news and objects from far away. By hand without horses. No giant trucks.
  • No stock market. No economic crashes.
  • No living on the street or homeless
  • The only charity is volunteering time or knowledge, not giving money which is widely used as money laundering by charities who skim off the top and also promote socialist agendas. Tithing for church is a messed up thing for god to promote.
  • Giving thanks was traditional for everything and their ceremonies were not about commercialism and presents and boosting the economy which is the main reason we have most holidays in America.
  • They just sat around and smoked pot and drank alcohol all day long every day.
  • They had no technology. And some say that it's impossible to have complex technology for free without capitalism. But I say why make it complex. That' why we have brains...so that we don't have to work as hard through tools and methods. The goal is to simplify things which are sleeker and extremely simple with no moving parts.
  • Indian kids knew how to survive as much as adults by the age of 7.
  • Medication was just plants with instant effects that were noticeable and worked and were free(not a monopoly). They had medicine men but also a healthier population and let natural selection take it's course. Before insurance (same term the mob used) took over. No hospitals was actually better because they didn't infect other patients and create staff infections in hospitals like nowadays.
  • It costs money to have fun or do anything in the city and it's always fake because you're not allowed to do any real things like build or garden or trap etc. Instead you get virtual lives on f***book. Like in the Alaska documentary about old crow where the guy visited old crow to learn subsistence living from his dad then went back to the city and was extremely bored and finally had to move to old crow because there was actually always stuff to do. And probably also friends to do stuff with that had time. And less stress. And this is a real place right now as we speak.
The goal of capitalism is to get a million dollars, then you finally don't have to work anymore... But really ancient tribal people hardly ever worked either and some are still around today who if you research it hardly ever work although with primitive technology. They had brains. They would have houses with no rent and just collected food, and just did whatever they wanted the rest of the time. But everybody did this, so everyone was basically a millionaire!

I'm man enough to admit that egalitarianism is sort of speculative and may or may not work with today's world. But I also know for a fact that socialism, democracy, and even capitalism don't work and have always failed and fallen and always will.


As far as we know we are the most intelligent and most successful species in the universe, shouldn't our lives be extremely easy and stress free and simple?

When you're constantly in a hurry and work really hard all the time.... somethings wrong! That's why we have brains.

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