I actually believe we have real capitalism - on the way. Evolution is easily understood. It's completely logical, and we see it in operation in our own lives, as our understanding and skills evolve over time. I have become a great carpenter after extensive experience, and do things differently today than I did 20 years ago. Society is just the same, and our industry and economic systems are skills and reflections of the physical universe and our improving understanding of it. Today we have a situation in which imperial polities have arisen and senesced serially for thousands of years. We see the same pattern has repeated, as young polities have strong societies struggling against fearsome enemies, and those that survive the competition have managed to make wise decisions and take forceful actions to prosper more than their enemies. Then they get soft, careless, corrupt, and terrible policies are promulgated by corrupt oligarchs, leading to their eventual collapse in hyperinflation and riots by deranged populations demanding every more gibs.
But something has changed in recent decades, and table top means of production have advented across all fields of industry that are potential to be automated, enabling people with merit to produce themselves that prosperity they intend to enjoy independently of what anyone else does, insulating them from corruption and gibs.
Where this is going we will not need any isms. It will be true capitalism, just like trees investing in leaves to harvest the summer sun is true capitalism. People accuse me of touting paradise, utopian fantasy, but those are people that have no merit, that do not understand how to make what they need, how to build anything, and doing that work is anything but utopian. It's hard work, and folks with merit understand that. I understand that, because I like hard work. I enjoy pushing my mind and body to exceed my limitations, to do things I don't think I can do, and I do that every day of the week. I sleep like a baby (when I quit reading obsessively and typing compulsively LOL), and wake eager to tackle the tasks of the day.
I yearn passionately to be able to have these abilities that our ancestors have sought fruitlessly for untold millennia, and considered the supernatural powers of the gods. I am building an aquaponics greenhouse in my spare time (LOL, so it's taking a while). I have a manufacturing workshop coming together, neighbors that believe in me, even though they are dubious about technology, about the memes that they have been confronted with by media, propagandists, and indoctrinations from birth to make them useful to overlords. They believe in me because I have done what they have not seen anyone else do, because I have seen what comes after this decentralization development and dispersal across the population becomes, and, like our forebears, I consider it godlike power and yearn for it to be at my fingertips so that my fate and that of my neighbors is in our hands, not imposed on them by masters, by gangs of armed thugs following orders to subdue and persuade them to obey and pay.
That is true capitalism, and it changes everything. It's not magic at all, or rather, the universe is a miracle that the consecutive products of development lead to such incredible independence. Independence is freedom, and free people can ascertain what price they will accept for what they produce themselves. That is true capitalism, and that is the real future that confronts humanity. That is why we are indoctrinated from birth, because sybaritic wealth and power are only parasitized from collectives, political power is only possible when individuals are helpless to defend themselves, and that is all obsolete when we apply ourselves to the production of our personal security, prosperity, and posterity.
Take your fate into your own hands and build what you want to have.
Thanks!
RE: If We Had Real Capitalism, Would It Be Good?