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It's the promise of a reward that makes people work better. I don't think it necessarily needs to be a share of the proceeds. Athletes push themselves hard for recognition and some…

A transition away from competition could also be implemented by capping the standard of living to what it currently is in the richest countries and then waiting for others to catch…

This is how it will be until we figure out how to organize human life without competition. Too many of our systems are based on us competing against each other (markets, nation sta…

For capitalism to exist we must have a system in place to protect private property, e.g. a government. That government must be the most powerful entity to be able to protect proper…

> Being wealthy and having to live among really wealthy people sounds better than being poor and living among equals. Why? Once you pass a level of wealth where basic needs like, f…

The issue is concentration of power. Wealth inequality is just one way destructive levels of power concentration can happen. We need low wealth inequality along with truly democrat…

But the preferences might be changing not because people like the new way more, but because the economic system forces people to choose the most efficient way of doing things. Some…

Maybe they aren't and never will be capable enough to do this, but if there's even a 1% chance that they are, then it's very important to consider the consequences and take the nec…

> In other words, the economic surplus did not go exclusively or primarily to the richest. That was in large part due of strong leftist movements and states that forced the capital…

The new people voted in are likely to be corporate stooges as well, as they have good and well funded infrastructure behind them for getting elected.

> You may hate it but you don't matter. We all do it no matter what. I've seen you say "you don't matter" in many of your comments. Why do you think like this? Sure, we don't matte…

Bezos didn't create that wealth alone. He had help from thousands upon thousands of people. It's impossible to calculate how much of the value of Amazon was actually created by the…

This will be the reality until we come up with a way to make good decisions using direct democracy, and make that decision-making process so fast and easy that it can be used for a…

There's value in that only if assessments made by people using the prediction for something aren't better than crowd wisdom. I would guess that a large part of prediction market pa…

There will be no point, and the stuff that normal people use will become more expensive as resources are more and more directed to megaprojects that the capital class is interested…

Why couldn't China be better? It can't get much worse than what the US is currently doing. It's getting dangerously close to 30s Germany levels of madness. China at least at the mo…

Yes. The bigger the gap becomes, the more the economy will be geared towards serving the needs of the wealthy instead of regular people. If a trillionaire wants a mansion on Pluto …

Those meals would most likely help a lot of kids become healthy productive members of society. That money would be saved by the families of those kids and used in other parts of th…

> The diversity of perspective and opinion I don't think this is what social media provides. With social media people are able to choose one perspective and seem to just immerse th…

What they do there is not enough. All decisions should be made using some form of direct democracy, otherwise you leave an opening for power concentration again, which will lead to…

Could be, if we can come up with efficient ways to govern using direct democracy that lead to better decisions than what we now have. I don't see much work being done to come up wi…

I wish it was just psychos with power that are causing these issues. It's worse than that I think. It's the competition based systems of human organization that will result in what…

> Europe faced a worse Russian threat during the Cold War without giving up national sovereignty. That's because Europe could rely on the power of the US back then. If the US was j…

I don't think so, because it's not only the truly weak that get exploited and abused in an "every man for himself" system. It'll also destroy the lives of many who could become str…