Ah yes the scientific invention of the skateboard. Please humor me on what your ideal economic system is.
Still unclear how your made up utopian economy will allocate scarce resources, each of which have alternative uses.
But anyways.... are you foreign or something dude?
I’m putting these together because apparently it’s completely reasonable to ask for a working alternative for mandkind’s economy any time someone dares to point out the shitty aspects of Nike and capitalism.
And I suspect not because you (or the many others that react with this dismissive query that is more a way to shut down the conversation) are interested, but it feels good to yell ‘hypocrite ‘ in your heads and keep things the same rather than acknowledge we need serious change.
But anyways, since you asked...
There are a wealth of different approaches apart from the extreme corporate American model (which by the way, relies heavily on subsidies/tax breaks/tax avoidance, so it’s “socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor”. )
This could be anything from Schumacher-style ‘Buddhist Economics” theory, mixed economies (markets for luxuries, cooperative control of basic human needs like food, electricity, water), PARECON-style horizontal economies, algorithms for resource allocation based on need (not any different than now, except we use algorithms for profit margins) or anything in between. For now, i’d be happy with Varoufakis-style steps toward weaning ourselves off the more extreme elements of corporate capitalism.
I don’t have a personal favorite, but it is obvious that Capitalism is unsustainable, exaggerates inequality, and deadly to the planet.
It needs to end soon, because it has no internal way of stopping resource destruction and pushing global warming to suicidal levels before it’s already too late. Which it may already be.
Bawtawdwon- the skateboard was obviously an example of everyday innovation, but if you want a scientific one, how about Hubble or CERN? The skateboard itself is an example of ingenuity based on play, not economic competition, in case I wasn’t being clear enough. Or you being deliberately obtuse.
And by the way, how do you solve the problem of Capitalism’s need for infinite growth with us being on a planet of very limited resources?
Bob, I’m Canadian, but live overseas.