Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
We have unnatural and destructive competition. We are social animals of cooperation, yet we have been forced into a system of brutal competition who's outcome is more often determined by luck that anything else.Competition is similar in this regard, ie, there is also cooperation.
This rational behaviors is included as a part of Capitalism and how people will behave. Were told people will act on logical interests, but they don't.Actually, many people (including even fans of capitalism) fail utterly
to understand how it works as a system. The assumption of rational
behavior is incomplete. There is also irrational behavior, which is
now fashionable to study in modern economic theory, but was also
implicitly fundamental from its inception, eg, wrong decisions resulting
in companies failing.
It has none of that. People still shop where at places where their values are violated, or they don't care, they don't know all the details of a company, or they may not have a choice. It also does fail in predicting money as a motivator. Women aren't motivated by it given they often go in lower paying jobs, and even with men their interests tend to be much more complicated that simply wanting to earn more money.This is wrong. It has great predictive power, but it is not deterministic.
One must consider many other factors too. Capitalism is far more
complex than your typical undergraduate micro & macro economics
classes, which study only simplistic emergent properties.
This is another aspect of capitalism where I can cite authors, proponents, and advocates. It goes along with the idea of a crisis of the commons.This isn't a failing. It's just not part of the system. Think of
capitalism as being like atheism, ie, it's not about morality,
which is entirely separate. But it doesn't mean that either
capitalists or atheists can be without morals...no matter
what the commies or fundies say.
We are told, by capitalists, we must not have public property because that will lead to a crisis of the commons. But all privatizing the property has done is squandered at rates far faster than at any point in our species history.This is where government & social pressure come into play.
They arent examples of a Marxist society. If we removed labels and had check lists, those societies wouldn't meet the list for Marxism.(I'd say that USSR,
N Korea, Cuba, & Mao's PRC are, but fans of socialism,
communism, & Marxism don't accept them as examples.)
The United States of America?So we're left with mere prognostications that their theoretical
construct with unstated premises will be superior.