• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    That doesn’t make any sense, though, greed has a larger impact on Capitalist systems as its the main mover and driver.

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      8 hours ago

      Yes, exactly! For all the noxious effects of greed, it drives competition which drives evolution.

      Even if a utopian communist/anarchist society were able to stabilize on its own, it would inevitably be overcome at some point in the future by a more competitive society that had martially evolved beyond the utopia’s understanding.

      Whether its right or wrong has no bearing on the entropy of it.

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        8 hours ago

        To the contrary, competition eliminates its own existence, eventually all markets will coalesce into large trusts that can be publicly owned and planned.

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          6 hours ago

          Well, competition has been going pretty strong for the last four billion years; time will tell.

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              5 hours ago

              The health of the current system is undenianly declining, absolutely. But competition is eternal and non-optional, so systems that seek to eliminate it are intrinsically doomed.

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                  2 hours ago

                  Just because competition can be suppressed temporarily within a discrete system doesn’t mean it has ceased to exist. Exactly why ideologies that demand the absence of competition will eventually be outcompeted from the outside.

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                    2 hours ago

                    It’s not about being temporary, production becomes so complicated and wide-reaching that it must become planned and publicly owned.