[quote=Arraya]Biospheric interactions are inherently cooperative in nature, not supremely competitive[/quote]
A deer killed by a pack of wolves may disagree. I’d say a pack of wolves working together to kill their prey is both competitive and cooperative.
[quote=Arraya]The human social construct of private ownership of the means of production that is our current economic system, a man-made institution fully dependent on social support… (without the social organization of military, police, and courts [you don’t think these just magically appear, do you? And you don’t think they’ve been with us for our entire history as a species, do you?] to keep the land under private ownership and control, it would fall apart immediately) is not mirrored in the natural world.[/quote]
Just because something is mirrored in the natural world doesn’t make it a good basis for a social system for humans. Just because it is not mirrored in the natural environment does not make it undesireable.
Insects eating their mates, mothers eating their young. Probably a good idea to make some laws in this area, though no such laws exist in nature, don’t you think. Or are these things “natural”?
[quote=Arraya]Capitalism is not cooperative in a holistic sense as life is.[/quote]
I disagree with this. Not cooperating in a free market is devastating. People know how to form groups, companies, partnerships, etc. to make a situation that is better for all involved. This happens all the time in a capitalistic society.
As long as you can regulate rights violations, a free market becomes a very holistic system whereby billions of people create a whole based on billions of interactions and decisons.
Compare this to a system being created by a small group of people making decisions for everyone. Is that more holistic? We see what happens when that one person (Greenspan, Bernanke) makes a mistake.
To be honest, regulating those violations is difficult in both a free market and a state-controlled one.
