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You said that, not me. It's an issue with many moving parts, as are most issues.
My point is that capitalism is being poorly applied, motivating people to look at other options.
Maybe capitalism has run its course? It did many good things, even Marx admits that. Capitalism has accomplished great achievements, but like all economic systems that came before it, it must also die and give rise to the next necessary mode of production. Advanced technology eventually reduces and replaces wage labor with technology and when that occurs that is the end of capitalism. The foundation upon which the whole edifice of capitalism rests is wage labor. Capitalists are the ruling class, the pillars of society, and the working-class or wage labor is the foundation upon which the pillars rest. You get rid of wage labor, you eliminate capitalism.
NO WAGE LABOR = NO PAYING CONSUMERS = NO MARKETS = NO CAPITALISM = NO MORE CAPITALISTS.
So the capitalists are now offering people a UBI i.e. Universal Basic Income. They see the writing on the wall, so they want to preserve their social status, power, money, by having the government give everyone a UBI. Some are offering as much as $3000 monthly. They want to conjure up, like magick, a synthetic customer base, fake paying consumers and markets. They're going to tax capitalists for the robots and self-driving 18-wheelers, then hand everyone a monthly check from the government. The tax won't cover everything, only a small % of the cost of the UBI. That's keeping capitalism on life support and maintaining the privileged status and power, money, of the capitalists. However, that undermines and delays human progress. UBI will create a techno-fiefdom. The rich will own the technology and people will live on a government check. We need to move on, to a better system of production.
Socialists have a better solution. We take all of that advanced technology and we produce everything that we consume, not for a wage or for profits, but to satisfy our needs. So we can have laws that require everyone to work 20 hours weekly, supervising the robots or in whatever field they want to work in, and everyone has essentially everything. A home, with all of the amenities, entertainment, internet, television, private vehicle/s, and a robust public transit system. Everyone has the best, most advanced healthcare, and education, and we all enjoy a very high standard of living. We have everything, including each other. Family life, social life..etc. Everything. And we are required to work 20 hours weekly, supporting the system that provides us all with a very good life.
We also have a lot of time, to do the things that imbue our lives with meaning and happiness. You can go to school, get a degree, become a scientist, a doctor, working with autonomous robot surgeons. You're there to supervise surgeries. You love doing that, so you do it. You're there saving lives and that provides you with an immense amount of satisfaction. Perhaps you want to explore the solar system? You want to establish space colonies in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. You want to be a pioneer, contributing to humanity's effort to colonize space and become a spacefaring species. You want your name to be remembered as an explorer and builder of space colonies. All of that is possible in a modern, democratic, socialist state.
All production is rationally, intentionally, centrally planned in cooperation with worker cooperatives. We have the computing power, the robots, artificial intelligence, automated systems, self-driving vehicles and everything else, including millions of motivated comrades ready to create a modern, socialist society that meets and even exceeds everyone's needs and expectations.
Communism is the mode of production that follows socialism. It comes after socialism, when the individual consumer has complete control over the means of production. The consumer produces everything they consume without anyone else's assistance or input. That will require Star Trek level technology, like this:
We don't have that yet, so what we can have is a democratic, socialist state. American socialism would be democratic, because there is no more capitalist United States, threatening socialism with war and imposing crippling economic sanctions..etc. So the source of all of that pain and suffering for socialist countries is gone. America would be in a unique position, to establish a real, genuine, modern, Marxist socialist society.
UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA
Communist Front Party - USSA
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