What would be an ideal form of society?
Currently we have people arguing between Capitalism and Socialism.
But the reality is both words are just a name to cover the oligarch technocrats controlling everything.
However, lets put reality aside for a bit and discuss the core of Capitalism vs Socialism. Why would anyone support one over the other? If one reads Marx, they would tend to never support Capitalism. And similarly, if one reads Gulag Archipelago the would never support Socialism.
The problem is people are not identical. And so, given any event, the outcome would not be equal.
Given a race, 20% of the people will cream the 80% by a far margin, with the bottom 10% never able to finish.
Given a farm, 20% of the people will grow way more food than then next 80%, with the bottom 10% dying of starvation.
If you are in the top 20% then of course you want a meritocracy. Where you are rewarded for your above average performance. So, this group will always be for capitalism.
But, if you are in the bottom 10% of people, you need other people to support you, or you just die. So of course you support a structure of "... to each according to his need", aka socialism.
And there is nothing you can do that will shift these two groups' opinion.
Socialism fails because you make everyone equally poor.
In any system, the Pareto Principal applies. 80% of the production is done by 20% of the people.
If you reward the top producers, then they produce that excess. But, in a socialist system the top producers are punished, and often killed. So, the entire population has to live on 20%.
20% of the televisions, cars, medical, dental, houses...
20% of the food.
And this is why we see socialism, everywhere it is practiced, ends in starvation.
Capitalism succeeds? where socialism fails.
Rewarding the top producers creates lots and lots of excess. 5x as much as a socialist society. And, if that was all, you would think it was great.
However, capitalism creates an underclass.
Just like the top 20% making just about everything, the bottom 10% gets forgotten. They can never get ahead. The competition is so bad, they may as well give up before they even start.
And this is why we see capitalism crashing when the underclass get left so far behind that burning everything down is better than continuing.
Now, each human wants to feel like they are part of the community and they want to feel like they are helping the community.
In both the socialist paradigm and the capitalist paradigm we have a portion of society that is on the outs.
And this is why neither of them works and they both collapse after a time.
Sad, but true.
Even if we get rid of T.H.E.M., the oligarchical ruling class whom which has basically controlled everything through recorded history, these two systems would fail.
One destroying the best and one destroying the worst.
Of course, if we had to choose one or the other, all thinking people pick the one that doesn't destroy the best.
And, although this is really, really important, as the top 20% provide everything, including growth and innovation, the destruction of the bottom is really saddening.
Currently what we do is impose a bit of socialism in the capitalism through govern-cements. In other words, in the worst way possible; we make everyone more miserable.
Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. In fact, there are people who are not cut out to tie their own shoes. So, a one size fits all solution of the past isn't going to cut it.
Fortunately we are humans, and humans like to think of solutions.
What do you all think? What is a solution where we reward the top performers for performing, and we keep the bottom performers from falling too far behind?