Dunno about most, but even if you assume only a good 20% of issues would be solved by removing capitalism…
… fuck, how massive would that be? Not just in the amount of problems we no longer have to fucking deal with, but also in the resources we can reallocate to the remaining issues.
Forget that fucking “We have a 50% increase in pollution because of a 7% budget shortfall” penny-wise and pound-foolish bullshit forced on us by a capitalist system. Many problems not directly caused by capitalism also have known solutions; only misallocation of the massive resources generated by modernity prevents their implementation.
And if new problems arise, in total or in implementation? Then we’ll deal with those as they come. Nothing ever improved by fretting about how things might get worse if you take the leap. Serfdom wasn’t abolished by timidity, but by the growth and exercise of power on the part of the people. We can’t listen to feudal lords pleading that freedom from serfdom could be even worse than a subsistence level existence under terms of near-literal slavery to abusive, unchecked authority. We have to take a step forward, even with all the 'what if’s and 'how about’s.
… of course, insofar as we can think of, consider, and plan for any potential new problems, we absolutely should. Just that fear of the unknown shouldn’t stop us.
Dunno about most, but even if you assume only a good 20% of issues would be solved by removing capitalism…
… fuck, how massive would that be? Not just in the amount of problems we no longer have to fucking deal with, but also in the resources we can reallocate to the remaining issues.
Forget that fucking “We have a 50% increase in pollution because of a 7% budget shortfall” penny-wise and pound-foolish bullshit forced on us by a capitalist system. Many problems not directly caused by capitalism also have known solutions; only misallocation of the massive resources generated by modernity prevents their implementation.
And if new problems arise, in total or in implementation? Then we’ll deal with those as they come. Nothing ever improved by fretting about how things might get worse if you take the leap. Serfdom wasn’t abolished by timidity, but by the growth and exercise of power on the part of the people. We can’t listen to feudal lords pleading that freedom from serfdom could be even worse than a subsistence level existence under terms of near-literal slavery to abusive, unchecked authority. We have to take a step forward, even with all the 'what if’s and 'how about’s.
… of course, insofar as we can think of, consider, and plan for any potential new problems, we absolutely should. Just that fear of the unknown shouldn’t stop us.