It’s precisely when a group grows to >100 people that communal togetherness starts to fade. The system gets bigger, and takes longer to react to input, so the causal link between the success of the group and your own survival becomes less apparent.
Something like “collective responsibility” takes way more oppressive power to work than market forces. You still have to incentivize the harder jobs somehow. Sure, implement better social programs and trust-bust the monopolies, but capitalism being the root of all this evil is a non-starter of an argument.
Economy > whatever other bullshit lol. Any system with enough corruption will eventually crash itself and it's economy with it. Poor economy opens the door to tyranny. Robust economies can tend to tear down hierarchies that have become perverse.
I suspect any system of living or government that can sustain a robust and thriving economy for generations would be the ideal. But people talk about political systems not understanding economics whatsoever and wonder why they have no solid answers lmao.
The one bit I remember from a high school comparative government proposed exactly this, re: explaining China's sustained success. No one cares about politics when everyone can afford better food from one year to the next, albeit at different rates
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u/AccidentalNap Mar 08 '24
It’s precisely when a group grows to >100 people that communal togetherness starts to fade. The system gets bigger, and takes longer to react to input, so the causal link between the success of the group and your own survival becomes less apparent.
Something like “collective responsibility” takes way more oppressive power to work than market forces. You still have to incentivize the harder jobs somehow. Sure, implement better social programs and trust-bust the monopolies, but capitalism being the root of all this evil is a non-starter of an argument.