[pfannkuchen]

Capitalism is the most successful system we’ve tried.

Or, at least, of those that we can remember we’ve tried—- where our memory consists strictly of… the set of written artifacts that have survived all the way until today. Subject to interpretation, and with a built-in bias for the more recent.

What percent of all human organizational structures in history exists in that memory? How many exist in dig sites buried beneath the oceans, where the coastlines once stood? How many were written down on something temporary, such as, say, paper, and were destroyed before we could read them?

I think this is why people feel strongly that there could be a better approach. We haven’t explored much of the space at all. Though any unexplored option would be very risky to try at scale, of course, and perhaps there lies the rub.

[adave]

We never tried capitalism, its been feudalism all along since the founding if you look closely. Not saying that its not been successful, you just have to think for who?

[TheCoelacanth]

Yeah, our economy is totally based on grants of land in exchange for military service

[cratermoon]

> based on grants of land in exchange for military service

US railroads have entered the chat

[FrontierPsych]

Railroads served in the military? Are the engines the generals? The caboose is the privates? Do the rail cars wear war ribbons on their chests???

I don't get what you're saying. I didn't even know railroads were people, but you learn something new every day, I guess.

The times we live in.