What does Socialism look like to you?

[TheKentuckian]

87. You're right about that, Starry. I'm on the edge of that propaganda effort myself.

But I'm not married to using a hammer when a screwdriver is called for, either.

Nor do I believe the screwdriver will work when a wrench is called for, or the hammer for that matter.

An economy is a means of distributing resources and that is all it is, you adjust the mix of tools used based on need and goals.

Fast forward a couple of generations to a time with perhaps with fusion power plants coming online, much more efficient solar collectors, and molecular factories going to work. How do the present systemic tools even apply? How much labor will be needed? What risks would capitol really be taking when a product is completely intellectual and produced at point of sale by machine? A machine just waiting on the next innovative design to build it's own replacement and then becoming raw materials again?

How would capitalism or socialism hold up to 10 billion people, almost no accessible resources, and the lights going out in a world with depleted soil, deforested, toxified oceans, desperate for freshwater, and extinct wildlife?

The systems were designed for different eras and worked questionably at best within them.

Many of the concepts will carry on but circumstances change that require whole new systems and we will have to leave some that probably brought us to where we are for good and ill to adapt to emerging realities especially with capitalism which comes to a point now that it must begin to assertively oppose progress in certain important sectors to maintain profit centers because advancement doesn't just change those profit centers like going from horse and buggy to automobile but risks eliminating potential for profit and at that pass the prime directive is clear and profit must win. That is deadly to any hope of growing to advanced species stature.

One cannot safely replace both science and morality with ideology, particularly an ideology designed to make avarice an asset.