Jones Beene wrote:
The USA is slowly moving towards the Scandinavian model, because we are
(despite lip service to unbridled-capitalism) also very pragmatic people.
Forbes Magazine itself is the "mouthpiece of capitalism," no? Yet they
tell it like it is...
Well, I hope we do develop in this direction. A hybrid system with some of
the best features of capitalism and socialism would be good. To some extent
the two systems are incompatible. You might say they cancel out or
contradict one another. For example, some people are not motivated to work
if they can get welfare money. But no system is perfect, and these problems
can be ameliorated.
In the far distant future, we will make whatever material goods we want for
free, robots will do all the work, and people will all do whatever they
please. Economics will no longer have any meaning. Money itself will
disappear, I suppose. I doubt anyone will miss it. It is, at best, a
necessary evil and a distraction from things that really matter.
- Jed
- Re: I think pragmatism wins Jed Rothwell
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