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[–] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Personally, I think we will need to completely replace the economic system. Our norms are based on technical debt inherited from millennia of practice, with every great social hierarchy designed to make the ordinary person most useful to the wealthiest. Starting over, with a clean sheet design - new currency, new laws, new organizations, and new expectations, is the way forward.

For example, what if workers could vote on who their boss is, and be able to set the pay of said bosses every three months? What if there was a hard 40 hour cap on workhours per week, with fixed pay per hour? What if tipping was outlawed nationwide, and delivery drivers had their fuel costs covered by employers? What if there was an absolute cap on income, wealth, and assets, to prevent the existence of moguls?

We should just throw out our existing structures, because they are piles of bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

    You just described anticapitalism without using the words anticapitalism. A capitalist system is a system where the owners of the capital decide who is in charge, what their goals are, and how to distribute profits. You described an anticapitalist system where the employees decide that. That's literally an entirely new economic system. If you believe your own words stop holding onto the idea that capitalism can be fixed and just admit you're a socialist.

    It's okay, I get the cognitive dissonance. You're like me and you probably live in a capitalist economy. Which means that you need to participate in something you don't like and have to do some light double think to avoid going crazy. I have it too. It's a real thing and it takes maturity to really understand.

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