| > The rest of your post fails to substantiate this claim. Re-reading what you posted I have to agree with this. >Unsurprisingly, this is not a big problem for economic systems that do not reward profit-making. There are few examples of such systems and they are extremely unstable, there are certainly no examples surviving more than a hundred years or so. > Witness e.g. the fact that capitalist systems always end up realizing and attempting to solve this problem with a patchwork of laws and regulations. All systems end up solving all problems with a patchwork of laws and regulations, except the problems that go away by themselves, or the problems that are not addressed at all. > But the problem of social benefit being misaligned specifically with profit-making is very much a quintessentially capitalist problem. Again, this is just a tautology. Above you effectively define capitalism as the system that rewards profit-making. So any feature of any system that is specific to profit making can only exist in capitalism in the structure you set up, so it's not a meaningful claim at all. > Also, consider that your comments about psychology are mostly comments about your own biases and value systems. No, this is simply not the case. If you think that mammals don't inherently have a concept of personal property you should see how my dog reacts when the cat is sleeping in her bed. We have to spend countless hours teaching children to share, not because it is natural for them, but because what is natural for them is not adaptive to life in a society. Our social structures have evolved much faster than our biology. |