In the Freedom Town debacle, the Libertarian dreamtm. Where everything was profit -centered. They had a problem with trash because nobody wanted to do that no matter how much they were being paid.
So the town had giant trash heaps everywhere, which attracted bears. And everyone moved or died. The end.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn’t look the same. Looking to pre-capitalist societies you find people still making and selling things. Are they doing it for money? Yes and no. An Ale house for example was literally just Ale being sold out of a person’s house and that person would change on a rotation as it was made and sold by different people. This was for like a community service than a profit based business venture.
And let’s say 95% of people act civilly, but 5% of the population is extremely greedy. How do you limit the greedy from drinking all the ale and not contributing to the community?
Well the example I gave was literally during the time of feudalism so in that society you didn’t. I’m a social sciencentist but I don’t have all the answers as, like you pointed out, bad actors are typically a minority which hijackes the society they are in. I don’t think we need to know everything to make a better world, we should start with what we can. If you or I ever find a definitive answer I hope we share that with everyone we can.
That’s a noble goal. This is basically the biggest argument against collectivism. If you don’t have even a framework for addressing it I doubt you will get much support for your ideas.
I think you’d be surprised. Lot of people like doing things like that and are more put off by the conditions we ask them to work in.
No one would work fast food or retail, but that might be ok.
Even that would happen.
In the Freedom Town debacle, the Libertarian dreamtm. Where everything was profit -centered. They had a problem with trash because nobody wanted to do that no matter how much they were being paid.
So the town had giant trash heaps everywhere, which attracted bears. And everyone moved or died. The end.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn’t look the same. Looking to pre-capitalist societies you find people still making and selling things. Are they doing it for money? Yes and no. An Ale house for example was literally just Ale being sold out of a person’s house and that person would change on a rotation as it was made and sold by different people. This was for like a community service than a profit based business venture.
And let’s say 95% of people act civilly, but 5% of the population is extremely greedy. How do you limit the greedy from drinking all the ale and not contributing to the community?
Well the example I gave was literally during the time of feudalism so in that society you didn’t. I’m a social sciencentist but I don’t have all the answers as, like you pointed out, bad actors are typically a minority which hijackes the society they are in. I don’t think we need to know everything to make a better world, we should start with what we can. If you or I ever find a definitive answer I hope we share that with everyone we can.
That’s a noble goal. This is basically the biggest argument against collectivism. If you don’t have even a framework for addressing it I doubt you will get much support for your ideas.