carrionthrash:

carrionthrash:

Before you actually start reading communist theory you assume it’s gonna all be about violent revolution and setting cops on fire but in reality most of it’s like… just descriptions of intuitive and efficient ways to organize society. It’s stuff that doesn’t feel like it should be radical, but stuff that politicians, urban planners, etc. should already be doing (and then you realize that they aren’t and it’s incredibly frustrating).

Like, consolidating industry so redundant work isn’t done by multiple privately owned companies working towards the same end (eg. Google and Amazon both trying to develop AI competitively rather than just letting computer scientists work together and share research) just makes sense. Equally distributing the amount of work available solves the twin problems of unemployment and overemployment (people forced to work multiple jobs or overtime). Letting people enjoy the fruits of automation by increasing leisure time was how people always envisioned the future, but instead people are terrified of technological progress because it threatens their job security.

A planned economy to minimize waste is just more efficient and in the best interest of basically everyone on earth. Capitalism is so backwards that genuinely innovative and efficient ideas are marginalized and discredited while the status quo promotes massive amounts of waste and unecesary labour. It’s almost painful to think about how much further we would be as a society by now if we didn’t have the ball and chain of our current profit-driven economic system dragging us down.

One of the most obvious and infuriating examples of how capitalism is an enemy of human progress is the state of green technology. Major oil companies have actively sabotaged the most important work being done in science and tech for the past 50 years, simply to protect their own interests, at the potential cost of all life on the planet.

Aside from the obvious moral argument that deliberatley delaying action on climate change is monstrous and will come at the expense of thousands and thousands of lives, it’s also ridiculous from a global economic perspective.

A worldwide transition to sustainable energy would create a massive amount of jobs and stimulate the economy in a huge way. Instead, we’re being told that our best hopes for new jobs are the pitiful amount of people it takes to man a pipeline (which is miserable work even if you get it) and the future of our economy is in the oil industry, which is crashing before our eyes. It’s almost comical how antithetical to the good of society our current trajectory is.