What is free market capitalism? Can you define it?
Is it peacefully and voluntarily choosing to shop at Walmart? Is it people peacefully and voluntarily choosing to work at Walmart?
If it is, I hope we have lots of it, although I will be long dead unless the market produces cryogenics, in which case I might still be around.
Who cares about 300 years from now?
I predict clothes will be edible, paintings will be tattooed on fat guys and robots will be our friends.
Free market capitalism.
I predict in 300 years it will be 300 years from now.
I predict that people will predict what 300 years from then will look like 300 years from now.
Oh, so you’re predicting there will be people? lol [:P]
I’m seeing that article pop up in another forum now. Socialism is always trying to reinvent itself I guess that’s why it’s unprincipled. It doesn’t have a steady bearing at all. In another forum it’s being explained as having to do with social relations and individuals interacting. So their saying this “New Socialism” can account for all societies historical and present. It’s also being explained as non-statist. If it’s not coercive, then isn’t this reinventing the wheel of the free market, I say yes. It’s really a folly of intellectual honesty, thus, it’s dishonest. But since socialism carries the baggage of collectivism over the individual it would be quite easy for numerous people to get confused about this “New Socialism”. This is a trait of socialism to begin with since it rids the individual’s own uniqueness and reasoning for the group. Socialism is intentionally disorienting and thoughtless or call it unintended consequences, yet, both achieve the same end.
Yeah, I think it’s also a failure to appreciate that the human mind is an infinitely more complex, circumstantial reasoning machine than any modern (or even near future) computer can hope to be.
I’d compare it to inventing the axle.
Everyone seems to be very upset over the word socialism. I don’t understand why. To me the article merely suggests that information technology will make capitalism work so well that socialists won’t have anything to work toward.
1+1=3
Your computer just said that 1+1=3. Can you please explain that?
Try and make sense, and I will.
theantirobot,
What’s the difference between socialism and free markets?
Because advocation of “socialism” usually implies advocation of state-forced socialism. Voluntary socialism within a free society is fine.
That’s socialism, and thus why the backlash. I’m anti-state.
So you want the State to control the internet?
I want online communities to consider the websites which unite them as a form of government. I want them to consider their exposure to advertising as a tax.
Why?
To take over the world!
It’s not government. VR is not meatspace. It never will be.
Which shows you don’t understand taxes or the free market. Free speech allows for advertising. Why do you see free speech as a tax?
And thus why the backlash here. Most if not all the people participating in this forum are anarchist or miniarchist and the latter involve a limited government dedicated to defense only, I believe. I say “I believe” cause I don’t want to speak for them or everybody here. I’m anti-State, thus, for liberty all the way. No government.
Why would you say the “New Socialism” is reinventing the axial and not the wheel? You’ve defined socialism, but did not define free market. What is the free market?