Re:Every company should be owned by its employees
by fuzzfactor on Friday July 26, 2024 @11:42AM
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I think the problem is that nothing has been shown to be better, but so many people can feel their whole lives that there must be something better.
I tend to take a step back and keep in mind that Free Enterprise is not inherently a part of Capitalism and vice-versa. They've gone together pretty well but each might do better with a different partner or different arrangement altogether.
It was an incremental step, followed by other incremental steps. There have also been many, many internets along the way: AOL, Prodigy, BYTEnet, MCI, Gopher, RBBS, etc. Every organization that had more than one computer soon figured out how to connect them. Even I did that.
BTW, Ethernet was invented by Xerox. I use it every day.
Compilers appeared shortly after computers that were capable enough to run them appeared. This suggests an inevitability, not a discontinuous invention. Jet engines were a discontinuity, too.
What I see is that if invention X is derived from inventions A,B,C,D,E,F, and D was funded by the government, the government gets all the credit.
> Capitalism as it is has empirically shown it's not the best system humanity should rely on,
How has that been shown?
> it has its advantages, it has major flaws, admitting that is a pretty good first step into trying to look what's next, how do we go from here. It's destructive, it's inhumane, it's simplistic, it will become a relic just like any other system that came before.
Show an example of any system working better.
Free markets are a chaotic system of creative destruction. There have been endless attempts at "fixing" that. None have worked better.