Capitalism, unlike socialism, in the context of money in general, is a much more natural system. You accumulate money or borrow money, and there you have capital, for example. (Money is essentially the equivalent of human time invested by will). But does this mean it’s good? Many natural things are wildly and disbalanced. Darwinism is not applicable to human society because its level of complexity and entanglement is much higher and deeper than anything else on the planet, we need to balance our system by ourselves, find tricks and ideas to get better and more stable, nature can’t solve such short-time issues for us.
In such an environment as capitalism, chance and luck play a significant role, and such factors need to be balanced – that is, integrated with socialism and distribution. But the key here is that the healthy core of capitalism – natural exchange, private property, and entrepreneurial ambition – is impossible and would be foolish to remove and flatten-align under the guise of socialism because those mechanisms are the system’s driver.
A healthy solution is a mixture of socialism and capitalism – leveling the system from sharp hyper jumps and ultra-rich, but allowing the system to fluctuate and hum at a low to middle level, supporting each other…
I would like to note separately – today’s USA as an example of concentrated capitalism – “suck money out of everyone and money-money-money: everything for money, regardless of quality” – an unevenly distributed society gradually slipping into crisis. Argentina, as an example of ultra-socialism – yes, everyone gets paid, they support the poor and the people, free healthcare and stuff – but they suffocate entrepreneurs – an extremely important essence for a healthy market and society’s progress- taxes, senseless bans, complexity – ultimately, the society is imbalanced and suffers. But by the way, both systems are democratic in nature – that is, flexible to change, and it may well be that both systems will overcome, heal themselves, and continue to live; at the same time, for contrast, if compared with Russia or China – whose economy was quite decent in its time as well as social support – until well known “middle income crisis” – but the closed institute of power and the tyranny of police and authoritarianism – that is, closeness – ultimately destroy any prospects, and if the USA and Argentina have more chances to weather the crisis, then Russia has more chances to collapse (top-down redistribution systems).
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