Like I said, i enjoy my coffee at Starbucks
I don't support corporatism myself, but everyone is free to do so - it's a personal choice of resource allocation...
Capitalism does not need to involve money - capitalism is about acquiring resources.
Acquiring resources is a natural dynamic consistent throughout the natural world, across a multitude of species.
...and if you do not understand that, you need to keep thinking.
if you do not understand that profit-seeking is coercive and can only be made possible by getting more out than what one puts in (breaking the laws of balance), and the consequence of coercion, then to each his town, I am afraid.
A no money world is the merging of materialism and metaphysics.
I'm more in agreement with you than you realize.
But fundamental premises you have are not based in logic.
And nature is logic.
Your conflation (bordering on religious-esque cultism, from what I see) with money and everything else is so far away from the reality of things.
Before we get metaphyical lets sort out the physical basics. lol.
Nature, as our sense perceives it - runs of the physical plane.
Do you not see profit seeking is the most common thread that runs throughout the animal kingdoms!
IT is not bad (or good), it just is.
Conflating (and demonizing) money to all the ills of the world, puts you waaaaay of base, and totally out of alignment with the earths natural process.
(basic physical ones, not metaphysical).
Conflating human cognizance (which I see as what you do) as the reason for profit taking, is absurd.
Honey bees do exactly the same thing. Lions do the same thing, and every other living organism.
Monetarism goes along with a very specific premise and this is the premise I am exposing. Money is the tool, so yes, I am not keen on money.
Animals profit-seeking??? People comparing themselves to animals is a BIG part of the problem. NO animal can think years ahead, not even apes... so your argument is already falling apart. Meaning that your metaphysics is completely outdated
In my metaphysics, humans have to collaborate with the least coercion and have their basic needs met (roof/food/clothing/high education). And competition is extremely coercive. Money was never invented to protect freedom but hierarchy.
Darwin is currently being seriously challenged big time by top philosophers and scientists -- it only is a beginning...
Darwinism/competition and hierarchy, the patriarchal structure is merely killing the planet, they are the tenets of atheism that claims that humans are above nature. Competition will forever mean RAT RACE! The carrot and the stick dumbs down society.
Even Nagel, here below, acknowledges how wrong the system is. If science is false, so is monetarism, just everything.
Many scientists and philosophers are getting it, our problems come from our own arrogance to think that Nature can be bent to our will.
A system that has trafficked and exploited humans throughout history is anti-life and needs to go. Monetarism cannot exist without a monopoly on value, collusion, cheating the output and input, and competition/exploitation, which is why our education system is a complete fallacy and poverty rampant. Addressing all that would render money meaningless
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False By Thomas Nagel
Nagel is one of the world's leading philosophers of mind. Although he is an atheist, he argues that the materialist approach to life and mind has failed to explain consciousness, intentionality, meaning and value. This failure threatens to unravel the entire naturalistic worldview in biology, evolutionary theory and cosmology. We need a new kind of science.
https://www.opensciences.org/books/philosophy-and-theory
My last reply to you... but thanks for your inspiration, I will be soon drafting a blog about it and clarify all this once and for all
give me a break, predators such as a lion only succeed 40% of the time to catch a prey... Nature will never allow obesity ...
Honey bees just do that to spend the winter... in the spring they are back to square 1... no animal can plan more than 1 season ahead
Even insects such as ants, the colony grows in size because they have more larvae to feed accordingly
Nature is a zero sum game, and for ever will. But we humans manage to think we can do otherwise... go figure
give me a break, predators such as a lion only succeed 40% of the time to catch a prey
Not an argument.
If they DIDN'T profit (calories), they would starve. basic math.
Try eating 1000 calories and expending 1500.
Basic math.
Zero sum is irrelevant, it's about transfer of energy - and profit - because of the action.
Honey bees just do that to spend the winter... in the spring they are back to square 1... no animal can plan more than 1 season ahead
Changing your own goal posts, to argue for the validity of the concept of animals not understanding time is not an argument.
The basis of your point was that animals have no concept of time.
Switching it to ' one season' is disingenuous.