I was in Gatlinburg, Tennessee over the weekend, and the messengers of God flew overhead in several luminous spacecrafts. Seeing them made me consider the cooperation involved in every message given; when they embolden me, and when they warn me; even when they are silent, they are silent together in cooperation. Heaven and cooperation are mutually inclusive.
Big government destroys liberties, and big capitalism destroys everything else; neither of these systems require nor rely on cooperation.
Cooperation is key to ending poverty and starvation, injustices, extinctions, and pollution on this planet. The competitive nature of capitalism gives opportunity for the poorest of the poor to become wealthy, and it has gotten rid of many slums in many parts of the world caused by other failed systems - no doubt. The problem is that the competitive nature of capitalism REQUIRES that there be enforced poverty, and enforced unemployment, and slums and ghettos somewhere (this is known as "the ideal rate of unemployment"). Capitalism is so far from being "good enough". Capitalism does not thrive without poverty and oppression. If it did, you'd have employers begging for workers rather than workers begging for jobs (causing companies to raise the price of bread from $1 to $20 so they could attract workers by giving them higher pay - which would further create an unviable form of capitalism as it wreaked havoc on the economy). As a result, capitalism does not thrive without a weaponized police force to kill or incarcerate those who have been sacrificed for the benefit of capitalists (the poor). No one willingly offers themselves to be a victim of competition by slitting their wrists and laying down in some ditch - no - instead, they cry out, or they steal, or they sell their body, or they violently protest. Should we always blame the victim? Capitalism is an economic system that manufactures thieves and prostitutes - thieves and prostitutes don't manufacture themselves. As a result, all kinds of laws and enforcements are in place to tackle these "threats", when the threat, all along, was competition.
As for, "What should we do?", well that's up to everyone. There should be cooperation and justice. It will be better if we are able to start on the same footing (right out of the womb), then while having some sense of structure and organization, create our own paths in life.
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