Repost inspired by seeing a self-proclaimed communist commenter recently muse on how much better monarchy was than capitalism.
So what’s in the post venture capital cards now that it is petty and faltering and evolving into unchecked neo feudalism?
In the present, anyone with all the answers is a dangerous fool.
My money is going on a long shot of recovering a m-type astroid. It risks everything by making all of Earth’s present wealth meaningless, but it also has the potential to make the present into the stone age of silicon by comparison. If Musk could claim an m-type, he is basically defacto emperor of the entire world.
Capitalism led to feudalism yes.
We are still stuck in that feudal system.
The feudal system of obligations to people who let you use their land predates the modern Capitalism where you hold obligations to people who let you use their capital.
The codependency of industry leading to far greater productive output, but requiring far greater up-front investments, providing the already wealthy a headstart in the race for getting even more wealthy is one of the contributing factors to modern Capitalism, but feudalism predates it by at least a millennium, depending on what point you take as the “birth” of feudalism.
Neither is particularly saintly. Both are systems of exploitation by the wealthy, just the form of wealth has (notionally) changed. Same shit, different coat of paint.
Both are systems of exploitation by the wealthy, just the form of wealth has (notionally) changed. Same shit, different coat of paint.
So pretty much what i said
The entire first chapter of the Communist Manifesto is practically a grudging praise of capitalism. It even makes Marx’s attack on capitalism in the same document sound somewhat hollow.
First chapter? Of a manifesto?? You may be wrong.
Chapter? Section? Subdivision? The document is divided into sections however you call them.
Btw, I recommend reading it even if you are a staunch opponent of communism. Simply because of the huge historical significance.
