humane capitalism : an introduction

[PeaceGen]

Humane Capitalism

Cloud hosted at https://tinyurl.com/politicsbyrv

Introduction

Mid-2020AD, and the world is in turmoil. Riots during the election season in the U.S., a COVID-19 virus for which a vaccine still has to prove itself in the field, economic upheaval, and a new cold war brewing between NATO and it’s allies, and the Socialist/Marxist/Communists in Russia and China, together with *their* allies (Iran, Venezuela, to name a few).

Background

Every time the rich start to hoard wealth and intellectual property because they become afraid of the growing populations, who are all consumers of goods and resources by nature, we end up with international tensions that can spark regional wars and economic / diplomatic wars and even real wars that cause mass-suffering.

So the rich resort to mis-direction of the populations, making the populations blame each other en-masse for what’s wrong in their societies, and those who call for an ability to acknowledge one’s own team’s mistakes, are made fun of or ignored.


Because it’s easier for the populations to blame the other groups, far away, than it is to fix themselves by acknowledging their own mistakes.


This is fundamentally wrong, and leads to real wars, that cause mass suffering, and much desire to reproduce into large new families after the war, which are then used and abused by the rich to produce the goods required to keep the populations happy until the next (cold) war.


I believe it’s about time these cycles of hatred and violence came to an end.

Classes of people, a.k.a. Professions

People are taught as children how to read, write, and which countries the world holds, the basics of history, the basics of some foreign languages that their country of origin is near to, so that they have a chance to make a decent life for themselves as adults.


In the school yard and in their neighborhoods / villages, they teach each other the basics of competition and struggle.

In school, they are also introduced to various professions for which adults believe there is a need to replenish the workforce with new workers as these workers mature.


Then comes the point at which the student must make a choice of which profession to pursue, to learn, and through competition with other students over grades scored for exams, they establish a hierarchy for their future paycheck level. Some will make more money than others, and this is a fairly honest result of how much talent and effort they put into their jobs as young adults, when they can still put in a lot of hours of work per day.


Most choose to become parents in their early adulthood, because this is the societal norm around the world. Family-size however, differs widely per continent and country.

Most choose to become workers for commercial companies, not leaders or police forces or medical doctors (the professions supported by tax money).

Only a very few are born into (super-)rich families, which oversee the flow of money, which in turn oversees the flow of material resources and produced goods.

Problems and Solutions

Let me be clear : dying of starvation is as bad as dying in war is. Having a bad life because of lack of resources is a life lived in unhappiness. And if your life, and your family’s life, is mostly unhappy, then what’s the point of being alive in the first place?..

So the rich can NOT be blamed for all that is wrong with the world, in my view.

Technological development, which includes agricultural technological development and which is necessary for a growing world population, requires that the rich are able to enjoy certain luxuries like private jets and expensive cars (which they use to establish a hierarchy between themselves that is displayed in their commerce choices).

Wars between the rich leading to wars between the populations

Since the internet has become commonplace, it is now competing for the populations’ attention with traditional media companies. However, in 2020, the internet still gets it’s clues and tips from the traditional media companies. And those are into mid-to-long-term planned mis-direction of attention, for seemingly political purposes, but in reality, I believe, it serves as a way for the super-rich families of this world to stay secure by controlling the movements of the populations.

Some news goes under-reported, such as how the previous leader of Libya wanted to upset the gold standard of the economy by minting (printing) his own gold coins, which led to aerial attacks by the U.S.A. to remove that leader and install a small allied government in the capital city of Libya, with a counterweight of a military leader who now controls much of the desert country side of Libya.


So an entire country is kept in a state of war, or cold war, because the new standard employed by the super rich families is to try to keep casualties down. Casualties make for the worst news, ever since WW1 and WW2 and the smaller regional wars that followed those two world wars.


One of the slogans that powered WW1 into reality was ‘the war to end all wars’.

One of the slogans that the Jews came up with after WW2, was simply : ‘never again’.


From this, and everything else that i’ve learned about history and the arts of war and politics throughout my life (i’m 43 at time of writing this), i conclude that the rich *are* willing to learn from their mistakes of the past.


This is why i recently advised the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.A. to move some of the statues of the old US Confederates to inside museums, like the Black Lives Matter movement fought so hard for this election year,

as well as to petition for the creation of some new statues outside and inside museums, for leaders of the civil rights movements that the U.S. has seen protesting for so many decades now.


If there’s one thing the (super-)rich do not like, it would be for them to be forced by the populations into quick chances of the economy and society. The populations are expected to be patient.

This is evidenced by things as simple as the doctrines taught to all little kids in grammar school : sit still, obey the teacher (like you obey your boss later on in life), and don’t forget to do your homework.


And without this, humanity would fall into total consumerism and widespread creation of large families. Overpopulation problems would ruin everyone’s life. The rich know this, from what they see happening in low-wage countries and other countries where people grow large families just to be sure some of their children stand a chance of a measure of success.

Crime

Not everyone is born nice. Not everyone is born obedient. Some are outright evil in the flesh.

Some are deceptive by nature, employing either defensive lying habitually, or offensive and defensive lying habitually.

In the dark ages, these people were simply killed. These days, we (humanity as a whole) choose to imprison them instead. Giving them free but boring food, and shelter from the weather and cold of the nights, as well as plenty of 2nd and 3rd and 4th and N-th chances to learn from their mistakes and to *start* obeying the laws of the land.

I recommend we keep it this way. And you should know, even the protest groups that call for mercy in one region of the world over what is happening to their members in another part of the world, usually consist of both nice people, and not-nice people.

I don’t think a single group can be found on Earth that does not contain members that are hostile towards some other group in a way that becomes at least deceptive, or even down right (verbally) aggressive.

Conclusions

Ultimately, we live on a very competitive world with plenty of need to survive against hostile elements and life forms.

And even the marxists / socialists / communists of this world can not escape the need for a resource-and-money based economy to sustain their populations and their rich and their leaders.

It is greed and a refusal to accept changes in ways of doing business, that bring us the most evil.

It is hate between the populations, and the planned fostering of that hate, that brings us the most fear for the future.

And it is the fear of what nastiness the future might bring, that cause panic-moves like the stealing of intellectual property, the escalation into diplomatic and cold wars, which then lead to regional wars in which mass suffering is caused onto the innocent!

It’s just a few more steps of sociological evolution before we can overcome all of this and embrace the ability for our planet to use our planning and education and competitions to sustain a much larger human population on an Earth that is home to a lot more pretty farm land, dotted with tourist attractions that will bring us all much joy.

 

[jamahir]

A generally good analysis.

And even the marxists / socialists / communists of this world can not escape the need for a resource-and-money based economy to sustain their populations and their rich and their leaders.

In an ideal socialist / communist society there will be no individual rich people whose monetary amounts grow continuously more than the rest. I have proposed a new economic system in this thread. It is a work in progress.

 

[PeaceGen]

A generally good analysis.



In an ideal socialist / communist society there will be no individual rich people whose monetary amounts grow continuously more than the rest. I have proposed a new economic system in this thread. It is a work in progress.

and you will find my reply here : https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/a-new-economic-system-for-the-near-future.673495/page-4#post-12570628

 

[PeaceGen]

i have decided that the Democrats in the US should have a real chance at winning the upcoming US national elections.

i don't like Trump's calls for a new cold war one bit, you see.
i don't see anything wrong with China "stealing" some intellectual property, because the Republican-led super-wealthy Americans were probably engaging in unfair trade practices for decades, which led to this whole escalation.

let's stop this encroaching cold war dead in it's tracks by electing a Democrat as US President!

 

[GeraltofRivia]

Humane Capitalism

Cloud hosted at https://tinyurl.com/politicsbyrv

Introduction

Mid-2020AD, and the world is in turmoil. Riots during the election season in the U.S., a COVID-19 virus for which a vaccine still has to prove itself in the field, economic upheaval, and a new cold war brewing between NATO and it’s allies, and the Socialist/Marxist/Communists in Russia and China, together with *their* allies (Iran, Venezuela, to name a few).

Background

Every time the rich start to hoard wealth and intellectual property because they become afraid of the growing populations, who are all consumers of goods and resources by nature, we end up with international tensions that can spark regional wars and economic / diplomatic wars and even real wars that cause mass-suffering.

So the rich resort to mis-direction of the populations, making the populations blame each other en-masse for what’s wrong in their societies, and those who call for an ability to acknowledge one’s own team’s mistakes, are made fun of or ignored.


Because it’s easier for the populations to blame the other groups, far away, than it is to fix themselves by acknowledging their own mistakes.


This is fundamentally wrong, and leads to real wars, that cause mass suffering, and much desire to reproduce into large new families after the war, which are then used and abused by the rich to produce the goods required to keep the populations happy until the next (cold) war.


I believe it’s about time these cycles of hatred and violence came to an end.

Classes of people, a.k.a. Professions

People are taught as children how to read, write, and which countries the world holds, the basics of history, the basics of some foreign languages that their country of origin is near to, so that they have a chance to make a decent life for themselves as adults.


In the school yard and in their neighborhoods / villages, they teach each other the basics of competition and struggle.

In school, they are also introduced to various professions for which adults believe there is a need to replenish the workforce with new workers as these workers mature.


Then comes the point at which the student must make a choice of which profession to pursue, to learn, and through competition with other students over grades scored for exams, they establish a hierarchy for their future paycheck level. Some will make more money than others, and this is a fairly honest result of how much talent and effort they put into their jobs as young adults, when they can still put in a lot of hours of work per day.


Most choose to become parents in their early adulthood, because this is the societal norm around the world. Family-size however, differs widely per continent and country.

Most choose to become workers for commercial companies, not leaders or police forces or medical doctors (the professions supported by tax money).

Only a very few are born into (super-)rich families, which oversee the flow of money, which in turn oversees the flow of material resources and produced goods.

Problems and Solutions

Let me be clear : dying of starvation is as bad as dying in war is. Having a bad life because of lack of resources is a life lived in unhappiness. And if your life, and your family’s life, is mostly unhappy, then what’s the point of being alive in the first place?..

So the rich can NOT be blamed for all that is wrong with the world, in my view.

Technological development, which includes agricultural technological development and which is necessary for a growing world population, requires that the rich are able to enjoy certain luxuries like private jets and expensive cars (which they use to establish a hierarchy between themselves that is displayed in their commerce choices).

Wars between the rich leading to wars between the populations

Since the internet has become commonplace, it is now competing for the populations’ attention with traditional media companies. However, in 2020, the internet still gets it’s clues and tips from the traditional media companies. And those are into mid-to-long-term planned mis-direction of attention, for seemingly political purposes, but in reality, I believe, it serves as a way for the super-rich families of this world to stay secure by controlling the movements of the populations.

Some news goes under-reported, such as how the previous leader of Libya wanted to upset the gold standard of the economy by minting (printing) his own gold coins, which led to aerial attacks by the U.S.A. to remove that leader and install a small allied government in the capital city of Libya, with a counterweight of a military leader who now controls much of the desert country side of Libya.


So an entire country is kept in a state of war, or cold war, because the new standard employed by the super rich families is to try to keep casualties down. Casualties make for the worst news, ever since WW1 and WW2 and the smaller regional wars that followed those two world wars.


One of the slogans that powered WW1 into reality was ‘the war to end all wars’.

One of the slogans that the Jews came up with after WW2, was simply : ‘never again’.


From this, and everything else that i’ve learned about history and the arts of war and politics throughout my life (i’m 43 at time of writing this), i conclude that the rich *are* willing to learn from their mistakes of the past.


This is why i recently advised the Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.A. to move some of the statues of the old US Confederates to inside museums, like the Black Lives Matter movement fought so hard for this election year,

as well as to petition for the creation of some new statues outside and inside museums, for leaders of the civil rights movements that the U.S. has seen protesting for so many decades now.


If there’s one thing the (super-)rich do not like, it would be for them to be forced by the populations into quick chances of the economy and society. The populations are expected to be patient.

This is evidenced by things as simple as the doctrines taught to all little kids in grammar school : sit still, obey the teacher (like you obey your boss later on in life), and don’t forget to do your homework.


And without this, humanity would fall into total consumerism and widespread creation of large families. Overpopulation problems would ruin everyone’s life. The rich know this, from what they see happening in low-wage countries and other countries where people grow large families just to be sure some of their children stand a chance of a measure of success.

Crime

Not everyone is born nice. Not everyone is born obedient. Some are outright evil in the flesh.

Some are deceptive by nature, employing either defensive lying habitually, or offensive and defensive lying habitually.

In the dark ages, these people were simply killed. These days, we (humanity as a whole) choose to imprison them instead. Giving them free but boring food, and shelter from the weather and cold of the nights, as well as plenty of 2nd and 3rd and 4th and N-th chances to learn from their mistakes and to *start* obeying the laws of the land.

I recommend we keep it this way. And you should know, even the protest groups that call for mercy in one region of the world over what is happening to their members in another part of the world, usually consist of both nice people, and not-nice people.

I don’t think a single group can be found on Earth that does not contain members that are hostile towards some other group in a way that becomes at least deceptive, or even down right (verbally) aggressive.

Conclusions

Ultimately, we live on a very competitive world with plenty of need to survive against hostile elements and life forms.

And even the marxists / socialists / communists of this world can not escape the need for a resource-and-money based economy to sustain their populations and their rich and their leaders.

It is greed and a refusal to accept changes in ways of doing business, that bring us the most evil.

It is hate between the populations, and the planned fostering of that hate, that brings us the most fear for the future.

And it is the fear of what nastiness the future might bring, that cause panic-moves like the stealing of intellectual property, the escalation into diplomatic and cold wars, which then lead to regional wars in which mass suffering is caused onto the innocent!

It’s just a few more steps of sociological evolution before we can overcome all of this and embrace the ability for our planet to use our planning and education and competitions to sustain a much larger human population on an Earth that is home to a lot more pretty farm land, dotted with tourist attractions that will bring us all much joy.

Being humane doesn’t solve any economical issues that are happening in the western countries and the world in general. The fundamental issue in the western countries is nothing but lack of economic growth. Lack of growth causes income inequality and decline in living standard, social tension was increased as a result. The western countries have tried to pit social content under control with its high welfare and high deficit policy but there is always a limit with growing deficit. It put further pressure on economic development due to a sky rocketing cost of social welfare and lack of fund to develop productive area.

It is equally evident that the model of economical growth in the western countries that has been put them on the top of the world for the last 300 years has reached to its end, both in its old form and new form. The old form was used by U.K. and other European powers featured colonization and physical conquest. The new one was invented by US, which featured its flagship neoliberals idea. This model allows US acquire assets both in financial and physical form in the non-western countries and drove its growth at home. However after Asian Financial Crisis, the wealth has been largely looted and there is no more easy opportunity like that.

 

[Mista]

Lack of growth causes income inequality and decline in living standard, social tension was increased as a result. The western countries have tried to pit social content under control with its high welfare and high deficit policy but there is always a limit with growing deficit.

I don't think it's the lack of growth per se. Japan has very anemic growth in recent years and yet they have relatively low inequality levels.

Most Western countries have seen an average of 1-4% GDP per capita growth since the 1970s, not much of a difference from today.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locations=XD

The difference is that growth in recent decades are driven mainly by technology improvement and not by labor productivity of the masses, and therefore the growth are mainly accrued to the capital owners (the rich) and the highly educated but not the working class. Globalization, while benefiting the economy as a whole, also partially weakens the bargaining power of the working class.

That is why in many Western countries you see stagnant real income growth among the working class despite having real GDP per capita growth; growth is mainly accrued to the rich and thus inequality widens.

It's a growing problem as long as the economic system we now know doesn't reform, because technology advancement is accelerating and many jobs in most sectors in all countries are going to get affected in some way or another in the coming decades.

 

[GeraltofRivia]

I don't think it's the lack of growth per se. Japan has very anemic growth in recent years and yet they have relatively low inequality levels.

Most Western countries have seen an average of 1-4% GDP per capita growth since the 1970s, not much of a difference from today.

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https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locations=XD

The difference is that growth in recent decades are driven mainly by technology improvement and not by labor productivity of the masses, and therefore the growth are mainly accrued to the capital owners (the rich) and the highly educated but not the working class. Globalization, while benefiting the economy as a whole, also partially weakens the bargaining power of the working class.

That is why in many Western countries you see stagnant real income growth among the working class despite having real GDP per capita growth; growth is mainly accrued to the rich and thus inequality widens.

It's a growing problem as long as the economic system we now know doesn't reform, because technology advancement is accelerating and many jobs in most sectors in all countries are going to get affected in some way or another in the coming decades.

I like your analysis around the asymmetrical wealth growth in the western countries, which underpins many issues in these developed economies, be it social, economical and political.

Japan in my mind is an unique being in the sense that it is but is not exactly part of the “western” world. Its different performance is largely due to the fact that it is more like Germany that has a real industrial base. Its low income inequality, resulted from its unique labor practice (in the developed world) is well documented and has been criticized by some neoliberals economists.

It is obvious that globalization causes loss of jobs, bargaining power of low skill workforce in the western countries and stagnation of their real income, which in turn causes decline of demand. In an ideal situation they would have been up skilled and upgraded into high value added industry but obviously it didn’t happen.

In the next decades or two, there will be a small number of countries that can dominate the industrial value ladder. Most of the developed countries will be resource or tourism driven economy. It is hard to see them to be able to maintain their standard of living as of today.

Looking at the big picture, I think the real dilemma in capitalism is that human is a factor of production and a factor of demand. Being part of production means its cost needs to be suppressed to improve competitiveness of the production. However it also suppressed the purchasing power and overall demand of the economy.

I am interested to see what you have in mind in term of reform to push the developed world out of stagnation and into real growth. Looking forward to your comments.

 

[Mista]

I am interested to see what you have in mind in term of reform to push the developed world out of stagnation and into real growth. Looking forward to your comments.

If you are interested and have some time, I strongly recommend to watch this:

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