Why? I’m 100% serious. I think we also both want the same thing, we just disagree on how to get there…
Don’t get me wrong here, Anarchism is great in small groups, but as soon as people start being, you know, people, and they start fucking around for whatever the reason be, things go wrong. Its the same reason why “Abolish the police” is just an inherently bad idea. Yeah, US police forces (and in other dictatorships) are godawful and have to be rebuilt from scratch, but you NEED police to keep the less social types (which will always be there) under control.
Look, there is not a single example of a country being anarchist, or communist, that was a success and not a dictatorship, which is my point: these systems only work when you start applying force to people.
I’d like to keep everything the way it is and with a minimal amount of changes get the best positive results. Keep capitalism because its great at generating wealth. The main problem we have now is that all that wealth goes to a select very few. So use taxes. hard. Put up a wealth cap, say 1 million, and when your combined wealth goes over that, all other income goes to taxes until you’re below that again. If you’re worth 2 million for whatever reason, all your income + 1 million in wealth will go to taxes. Nobody can be worth over 1M. The poor, those without jobs, etc, pay no taxes at all.
With that, everyone is about as wealthy as everybody, governments get a huge funding influx that they can use for free healthcare, free education, UBI, you name it. I think its a better (lets call it simpler) idea than to overhaul the entire foundation of every country to move it to a system that likely will face a different set of problems, but still problems.
Why? I’m 100% serious. I think we also both want the same thing, we just disagree on how to get there…
Don’t get me wrong here, Anarchism is great in small groups, but as soon as people start being, you know, people, and they start fucking around for whatever the reason be, things go wrong. Its the same reason why “Abolish the police” is just an inherently bad idea. Yeah, US police forces (and in other dictatorships) are godawful and have to be rebuilt from scratch, but you NEED police to keep the less social types (which will always be there) under control.
Look, there is not a single example of a country being anarchist, or communist, that was a success and not a dictatorship, which is my point: these systems only work when you start applying force to people.
I’d like to keep everything the way it is and with a minimal amount of changes get the best positive results. Keep capitalism because its great at generating wealth. The main problem we have now is that all that wealth goes to a select very few. So use taxes. hard. Put up a wealth cap, say 1 million, and when your combined wealth goes over that, all other income goes to taxes until you’re below that again. If you’re worth 2 million for whatever reason, all your income + 1 million in wealth will go to taxes. Nobody can be worth over 1M. The poor, those without jobs, etc, pay no taxes at all.
With that, everyone is about as wealthy as everybody, governments get a huge funding influx that they can use for free healthcare, free education, UBI, you name it. I think its a better (lets call it simpler) idea than to overhaul the entire foundation of every country to move it to a system that likely will face a different set of problems, but still problems.