Here is a question:
If we kill the ability to accumulate vast, billionaire fortunes, clearly there will be less inequality - given the tremendous work those shits put into hoarding.
But would our species-level rapacity stop? Would overconsumption halt? War?
My feeling is no.
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If anything, capitalism grew *from* those structures & processes... it's a dysfunctional c&c system, but it is just that - it isn't a root cause.
If you take your point about feudalism, capitalism is more like a dysfunctional sovereign than a system unto itself, I think.
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All of these polluting megacorps, exploitative billionaires and so on are bootstrapped on top of industrial technologies that lack any historical precedent, unless you're a biblical literalist or something.
There is no telling how bad we could make alternative control systems.
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I think there are two roots to this problem that capitalism did not create, and the end of capitalism will not solve (in and of itself):
- the human organism is massively maladapted for the environment we engineered, and our hegemony is an ecological risk unto itself
- pollution
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So my feeling is, until we get really serious about how to solve a 10 billion plus population boom, or our ludicrous destructive capabilities vs. our very limited species-level coordination, or the staggering inefficiency of our tech, capitalism remains an academic issue.
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Here's the idea I don't trust:
The idea that people will get together worldwide and agree that capitalism kinda sucks and should be replaced AND that they figure out how to create a system that pollutes minimally, repairs ecosystems, distributes resources equitably...
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I don't think there is any grand sweeping ideological solution, except working to empower people a bit more and helping them to make better decisions.
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I don't. Most of the tech labelled 'AI' today is only good at stuff humans are so dogshit at, we find any degree of precision, nonlateral learning, absolute goal-driven decision-making or processing power at all overwhelming.
The sorts of systematic errors made by those systems are slightly different to the ones made by humans, but not necessarily smart.
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