Row 92055

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If the practice of capitalism does not cultivate an improved human nature, it is of no further interest to me. Alternatives must be imagined, promoted, and eventually, voluntarily embraced. People have to want a better collective life than we have at present, and believe it to be possible through cooperation. Otherwise there's no system at all, just a raw contest of wills. Even capitalism can, and often does, fall into this.

I agree with you on the fundamental problem: human nature is selfish and competitive. That's why I don't want to put economic systems on a pedestal. They are simply tools, musical instruments abused to express the grasping cacophony of the human heart.

Anyway I wouldn't want to design a system of society based around my instinctive reactions to things; that is just an existing system called nature, and I do not think nature is inherently good or right. Cancer is natural, schizophrenia is natural, flesh-eating bacteria is natural, rape and gore are natural, but none of these things are desirable in a human-directed world.

I wouldn't design a system at all, since the only way it would ever be adopted is if I could somehow force it on everyone; for there would always be some who refuse to be convinced, contrarian on principle, and they would work tirelessly to spoil my utopian ambitions. Instead, if I had the talent and charisma to do so, I would focus on teaching and inspiring people to be good. To be kind, compassionate, respectful, tolerant, embrace mutuality and feel motivated to help and uplift others for no promise of reward. That's it. All other societal goals and systems should proceed from the basis of a new, socially conscious mankind. Everything we do apart from this is just passing time and wasting energy, replacing one stressful problem with another, ensuring that some significant percentage of humanity will always be born just to suffer for others' gain. Which I think is terrible, and a good reason not to bother bringing new children into the world. Even if I could give them a materially good life, that would necessarily come at a terrible cost to someone else's children; and in any case, a happy life cannot be guaranteed.

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text If the practice of capitalism does not cultivate an improved human nature, it is of no further interest to me. Alternatives must be imagined, promoted, and eventually, voluntarily embraced. People have to want a better collective life than we have at present, and believe it to be possible through cooperation. Otherwise there's no system at all, just a raw contest of wills. Even capitalism can, and often does, fall into this. I agree with you on the fundamental problem: human nature is selfish a…
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