[quote=livinincali] The problem is that this idea flies straight in the face of evolution, natural selection, or Darwinism. Mother earth or nature doesn’t reward fairness/equality it rewards evolution/innovation. .[/quote]
Complete and utter nonsense. The vast majority of human existence has been mostly egalitarian. Like 99%. Humans emerged as an egalitarian social species(dependent on others for survival with mostly equal distribution of resources) and nature rewarded this interdependent and egalitarian relationship. Like 3 million years as a hominid and 175000 years as homo sapien. The social relations that developed over the past 7000 years are an anomaly.
Biospheric interactions are inherently cooperative in nature, not supremely competitive… this is how a life manages to endure without snuffing everyone else out. Everything finds its unique niche in a functioning ecosystem, and the niches in their entirety are unique to the organisms that occupy them. And nature doesn’t have concentrated ownership of the means of production… EVERYTHING is the means of production for everything else, equally distributed. Output = input. No waste to speak of, contrary to our system.
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.
Capitalism is not cooperative in a holistic sense as life is. It does not perpetuate life in a balanced and sustainable way. We are now seeing the central concepts of externalities at work(well those who wish to look), and what that means for eventual destruction of the framework in which our economic paradigm and institution operates.
