By the toxic and destructive nature of the capitalist structure, it may not sound so hyperbolic to say that competition is the road to human extinction.
This pattern really stands out, how those with an edge keep gaining more. What strikes me most, though, is how easily it’s accepted as just ‘the way things work.’ I’ve noticed this in systems courses too, people name it as a dynamic but rarely question whether it’s actually good or necessary. Your writing makes me reflect more deeply on that.
Until you can discriminate between Natural vs. Unnatural Systems, your shooting yourself in the foot, because current Systems Theory has HUGE holes to fill. My Unified Framework for Systems Theory and my 8th Element - The Designer Query Discriminator provide a possible solution.
Dear Mr. Joseph, I put forth a proposal for my 7ES Unified Framework for Systems Theory, developed from 58 yrs of praxis trying to remove the image burned into my minds eye.
I think it is a possible solution to your Article. Certainly opening up thinking and discussion.
Sincerely, C. Alden, Independent Systems Theorist
Proposal for the Inclusion of the 7ES Unified Framework into Systems Theory
The monopolies that emerge from our present economies are good examples of how much more effective good collaboration can be even when confined to a corporate subculture. Monopolies would be great if only the diving purpose of those monopolistic corporations was the sharing and distribution of sustainable goods and services for the benefit of people and planet rather than the accelerating of economic inequality by maximizing profits for the richest 1%. We could eliminate poverty and hunger globally in no time at all as well as eliminating the forever resources wars and all the destructive "externalities" like climate change, ecocide and genocide. Competition really sucks.
A much easier way than looking for some non-existent system that could lead to the same failure as in the Eastern Bloc is to use cutting edge science to calculate the actual externalities and have them built into the price. That's what my friend says and he suggested that for a transitional period there should be dual prices, where the new ones would show the real one with externalities and gradually converge.
Things that worked for eons in indigenous / tribal societies, such as the free exchange of goods and services, should work similarly well in a larger context, given the right level of transparency and awareness.
If the following factors were taken into consideration, this analysis might sound quite differently, and the solutions would be more apparent:
- Deep transparency of each product (and it's ingredients) and how they were produced (a public platform on which each barcode, product and entity/corporation (and their actions and behaviors) can be observed/analyzed/rated/judged by the public and investigative journalists), and clarity about the true pricing / externalities of a product - ultimately people choose/vote with their money;
- Wisely implemented Pygouvian taxes (higher public awareness about how the profits are being capitalized and externalities socialised);
- Factors of disruption - as right now most giant monopolies are being disrupted and outpaced by smaller entities (especially if those monopolies wouldn't have the lobbying (/laws/systems) advantage);
- A radically different system of patents - making all patents publicly usable, allowing any entity to use a patent if it pays a certain minimal royalty, or something along those lines...
By the toxic and destructive nature of the capitalist structure, it may not sound so hyperbolic to say that competition is the road to human extinction.
It is, coupled with the fact that the system cannot find environmental balance.
How do we exit from the slavery ?
👏🏾OK, 👏🏾That 👏🏾part👏🏾
Nothing…the whole mess will destroy itself.
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👏🏾PE👏🏾RI👏🏾OT👏🏾
It is self-evident that trade creates monopolies; mathematics explains why it is so.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/
We are all connected. Every living thing on this planet.
This pattern really stands out, how those with an edge keep gaining more. What strikes me most, though, is how easily it’s accepted as just ‘the way things work.’ I’ve noticed this in systems courses too, people name it as a dynamic but rarely question whether it’s actually good or necessary. Your writing makes me reflect more deeply on that.
Until you can discriminate between Natural vs. Unnatural Systems, your shooting yourself in the foot, because current Systems Theory has HUGE holes to fill. My Unified Framework for Systems Theory and my 8th Element - The Designer Query Discriminator provide a possible solution.
https://clintonalden.substack.com/p/clair-pattersons-legacy-and-the-cosmic
Dear Mr. Joseph,
Here is my case for why we should formalize the 7ES Unified Framework for Systems Theory.
https://clintonalden.substack.com/p/why-systems-theory-needs-a-unifying
Dear Mr. Joseph, I put forth a proposal for my 7ES Unified Framework for Systems Theory, developed from 58 yrs of praxis trying to remove the image burned into my minds eye.
I think it is a possible solution to your Article. Certainly opening up thinking and discussion.
Sincerely, C. Alden, Independent Systems Theorist
Proposal for the Inclusion of the 7ES Unified Framework into Systems Theory
https://clintonalden.substack.com/p/proposal-for-the-inclusion-of-the
The monopolies that emerge from our present economies are good examples of how much more effective good collaboration can be even when confined to a corporate subculture. Monopolies would be great if only the diving purpose of those monopolistic corporations was the sharing and distribution of sustainable goods and services for the benefit of people and planet rather than the accelerating of economic inequality by maximizing profits for the richest 1%. We could eliminate poverty and hunger globally in no time at all as well as eliminating the forever resources wars and all the destructive "externalities" like climate change, ecocide and genocide. Competition really sucks.
A much easier way than looking for some non-existent system that could lead to the same failure as in the Eastern Bloc is to use cutting edge science to calculate the actual externalities and have them built into the price. That's what my friend says and he suggested that for a transitional period there should be dual prices, where the new ones would show the real one with externalities and gradually converge.
Things that worked for eons in indigenous / tribal societies, such as the free exchange of goods and services, should work similarly well in a larger context, given the right level of transparency and awareness.
If the following factors were taken into consideration, this analysis might sound quite differently, and the solutions would be more apparent:
- Deep transparency of each product (and it's ingredients) and how they were produced (a public platform on which each barcode, product and entity/corporation (and their actions and behaviors) can be observed/analyzed/rated/judged by the public and investigative journalists), and clarity about the true pricing / externalities of a product - ultimately people choose/vote with their money;
- Wisely implemented Pygouvian taxes (higher public awareness about how the profits are being capitalized and externalities socialised);
- Factors of disruption - as right now most giant monopolies are being disrupted and outpaced by smaller entities (especially if those monopolies wouldn't have the lobbying (/laws/systems) advantage);
- A radically different system of patents - making all patents publicly usable, allowing any entity to use a patent if it pays a certain minimal royalty, or something along those lines...