Economics

Well, economic system is flawed because mutated ape is flawed. It's all flawed everything is flawed.

The bourgeoicene

Embrace the paradox, humans are arguably the greatest rights violators in all forms of violence, but they are also the only beings capable of granting rights through moral agency. The paradox is also true of anthropocentric climate change, it's creator, but also it's only possible resolver. The environment only has instrumental value to conscious beings so it would miss the mark to assume the absence of humans is in anyone's (including animals) best interest.

Guess we should just try to get through each others thick skulls instead of being edgy :/

I always felt capitalism was just humans at their most pure and Evil. At their worst. In their most unfettered state.

I think that the fundamental flaw of our economies, is that they weren't created with rules in the first place. We just took the vague notions of trade and coinage, then began to add the rules after the fact. What if we did a hard reboot, but with an economic Constitution to guide the economic system?

For such a system, I believe we would want three things at the most basic level:

1: Transparent and simple rules. Ordinary people should be able to easily identify and troubleshoot the excessively wealthy.

2: Universal but boring benefits that guarantees survival for everyone, with a basic income. Money is for buying upgrades to lifestyle, not survival. Jobs are for affording to buy more expensive luxuries, like vacations to a foreign land, attending the theatre regularly, and so forth.

3: Absolute floors and ceilings on income, assets, and wealth. Beyond a specific point, wealth is taken as tax.

I think its just nature and nature is brutal.

We are animals, we need to destroy the environment to survive (ex cut down trees for shelter, kill living things to eat). We have the urge to reproduce, so there is more of us which leads to more destruction. If a person is threatened, they will be prepared to kill another for their survival. This is pretty much true for most living beings.

I wouldn't call us a virus, but it was probably our intelligence that will bring us to our downfall. Maybe an anthropologist can comment on what the tipping point was.

What causes, and conducts capitalism if not humans?