Killing other systems is a form of “virtue” though, because as idealistic as anyone wants to be, whatever system we make will exist in a competitive ecosystem. Want to make a functional communism? Well, it has to be able to survive assaults from capitalism. A system cannot just be “moral” or “good”, it also has to be strong or ruthless enough to protect it’s existence from the many forces which will seek to destroy it.
That’s why I advocate for capitalism with significant socialist policies, strong safeguards, and extreme restrictions. Tax the rich and give everyone UBI. Make the minimum wage a multiple of the inflation factor (and fix “inflation” to actually measure how the cost of everything has increased over time).
Knowing lemmy, most people will stop reading six words into this comment.
I would prefer a better system from the ground up. I’m willing to compromise for making the existing system not suck (which would actually take more work but I think will be easier to sell to the general populace).
Of course, this is the overly idealistic side of me, the part that still believes that playing by the rules is the correct thing to do. I’m more likely to believe the anarchists these days. It’s amazing how far left I’ve moved In the past handful of years, I used to think of myself as liberal (actual liberal not what most people who call themselves liberal are).
At this point I’m willing to try just about anything else, and that includes burning it all down and starting over.
Killing other systems is a form of “virtue” though, because as idealistic as anyone wants to be, whatever system we make will exist in a competitive ecosystem. Want to make a functional communism? Well, it has to be able to survive assaults from capitalism. A system cannot just be “moral” or “good”, it also has to be strong or ruthless enough to protect it’s existence from the many forces which will seek to destroy it.
That’s why I advocate for capitalism with significant socialist policies, strong safeguards, and extreme restrictions. Tax the rich and give everyone UBI. Make the minimum wage a multiple of the inflation factor (and fix “inflation” to actually measure how the cost of everything has increased over time).
Knowing lemmy, most people will stop reading six words into this comment.
I would prefer a better system from the ground up. I’m willing to compromise for making the existing system not suck (which would actually take more work but I think will be easier to sell to the general populace).
Of course, this is the overly idealistic side of me, the part that still believes that playing by the rules is the correct thing to do. I’m more likely to believe the anarchists these days. It’s amazing how far left I’ve moved In the past handful of years, I used to think of myself as liberal (actual liberal not what most people who call themselves liberal are).
At this point I’m willing to try just about anything else, and that includes burning it all down and starting over.