Pamela Anderson's anticapitalist manifesto

[Yeekim]

The problem is that, even though Capitalism is as broken, unworkable, and failed as a sustainable economic system as Communism, Imperialism, Colonialism, Mercantilism, Feudalism, and old-fashioned Barter or Pillaging/Looting, there's still a tiny minority of people in this world who benefit from IMMENSELY and IN SPADES from this utter trash heap economic system that is capitalism, and that minority either owns, or has huge influence, over most educational institutes, media outlets, political leaders (except the most extreme, radical, and marginal on the Right- and Left-Wings of the spectrum), and ALL financial institutions - elements which would be NECESSARY to have on board to institute these glorious new economic paradigms peacefully (that is, without a bloody revolution, and an utter crap-shoot of who will emerge on top of a new power structure when the dust settles).

I may have missed something - which glorious new economic paradigms?

 

[Patine]

I may have missed something - which glorious new economic paradigms?

The reason you haven't heard of them is because there's no money backing promoting them, and their advocates and architects receive no funding (funny that)...

 

[brennan]

Whatever. I grew up poor. I invested in the stock market, I am no longer poor. ...Granted, you have to have enough intelligence to get a good enough job to make enough money.

Confounding variable.

 

[Yeekim]

The reason you haven't heard of them is because there's no money backing promoting them, and their advocates and architects receive no funding (funny that)...

So would you kindly enlighten me...? Or haven't you also heard of them due to the same reasons?

 

[Patine]

So would you kindly enlighten me...? Or haven't you also heard of them due to the same reasons?

This may sound particularly cliched, but I remember seeing some pamphlets on the public transit around the University of Alberta area that detailed some obviously radical and innovative economic paradigms that were definitely not based directly on Capitalism or Communism, but that I recall looking quite interesting, a couple being by an outfit called Technocracy, Inc., which seemed to be a small and privately-owned economic think tank, and who is doesn't come up in any clear Google search today (I only saw these pamphlets, in paper hard copy, back in the early '90's, before I bought my first PC, and certainly before I had the Internet). That's the obscurity I'm referring, I'm afraid.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Maybe they don't exist then? I mean... you saw a pamphlet once that you don't even fully remember. So it could just be a single, unworkable theory. Not multiple glorious paradigms.

 

[Dekker]

I think that while there may not be several paradigms or even a single strong workable theory, the point there's still a tiny minority of people in this world who benefit from IMMENSELY and IN SPADES from this utter trash heap economic system that is capitalism, and that minority either owns, or has huge influence, over most educational institutes, media outlets, political leaders (except the most extreme, radical, and marginal on the Right- and Left-Wings of the spectrum), and ALL financial institutions who do use that power to maintain the status quo which directly and indirectly suppresses other models from being given a fair chance. Now I don't think there's some radical model out there that is the magic bullet, but even not so radical ideas from the likes of Bernie Sanders types are suppressed. I don't see how checked Capitalism is unworkable, we don't necessarily need to smash the system from the get go on the way towards something better.