Quote Originally Posted by medicinal
Is there no alternative to Capitalism besides communism or socialism. Is there not a modified version of capitalism that keeps the money more evenly distributed.
socialism with a dash of capitalism thrown in for incentive? that's the 1984 scenario, masses of complacent workers carrying out their appointed tasks and the few with more entrepreneurial tendencies overseeing the rest. that seems to be our goal at the moment and it's not a pretty picture.

downsized communal states cooperating within a loose capitalistic framework? my personal favorite and a beautiful utopian ideal. until you add in the expansionist ideologies of various political and religious groups. if you then add in the human tendency to turn petty grievances into all out warfare it becomes only a matter of time until these states merge to form nations at war.

capitalism tightly constrained by socialist programs to raise the standard of living among those who, for whatever reasons, cannot thrive in a cutthroat marketplace? this is the present agenda of american liberals and it has a few inherent flaws. deciding who bears the financial burden of those programs and the culture of entitlement which grows among those serviced by them being the most glaring faults.

there, i've given you three hybrid systems - any of which are perfectly workable. with proper political and ethical backing, any of them could lead to the equitable distribution of the society's wealth. any of them could be corrupted and used for the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. economic ideologies alone cannot solve the sort of problems you wish to address.
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