AnyAppearance3827

AnyAppearance3827 t1_j822orh wrote

I'm willing to play here. I'm phoneposting though

  1. medical lodges existed until mid 1900s that had retiree and young doctors that did basic medicine for very cheap but doctors at hospitals lobbied and form the AMA to squash competition, and the insurance agencies moved in to a niche that was exploitable because of the narrow doctor labor resources and the associated liability for the hospitals. This is an example of regulation distorting the market rather than an example of private insurance creating a bad system.

  2. yeah landlord's are shit. That's basic.

  3. unsold cars- if the companies die from lack of sales in the short term, they can't create more cars later once the current models run out in the long term. They are under no obligation to sell, so this system seems reasonable to sustain life of the company and employees.

  1. Same reason, everyone buys a 30 year light bulb, all the light bulbs run out, where are you gonna buy a new one in 30 years? It's a necessary feature to allow companies to exist, to allow the market to be served.

  2. Education is great for increased value, but it's causative for low birthrates, the single highest factor. It's controls half of the birthrate if you look up the stats, based on international numbers. Countries need to strike a balance of enough education.

  3. Yeah that's accurate.

  4. Yeah that's accurate, the media is a mouthpiece of interests with power and always has been. You would be a fool to trust any media to be nonbiased at any point.

  5. Yes people should work together, but if everybody in a country is focused on the benefit for their lowest caste, they will inevitably attempt to extract resources from neighbour's in the form of slavery or war.

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AnyAppearance3827 t1_j813q7d wrote

How are you going to construct a non exploitative system? Who is being exploited in the current system and how are they being exploited? Why does that system of exploitation exist? How can you construct that system differently?

If you can answer those without defaulting to "greed" as an explanation I will accept your viewpoint. In my experience exploitation occurs because it's necessary to run the systems in a manner that achieves things on the scale necessary for the system to exist. People who say things run that way because of human greed are usually academics that make statements primarily to justify their existing biases that form in a vacuum without experience of the reality of running those systems.

Industrialists in the thick of their experience will give you much different reasons that are usually based on hard facts of the reality of the situation that don't have high minded moral posturing behind them. Usually things happen because of the necessity of the action.

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AnyAppearance3827 t1_j8067i9 wrote

It's not going to phase out an exploitative system. It's just going to be more effective at exploiting resources and people.

Profits allow investment in new fields and new growth, profits come from reducing costs and increasing revenue and taking the excess value. It is impossible to have a complex system where people get exactly the value they produce and have an organization with specialization. An administrator doesn't make any revenue, but he maximizes the revenue of others, same for an accountant or a secretary or an executive. They exist because of the excess value of the front line worker muscle. If the front line work got all the value of his actions, you could not pay the value maximizers, so you would not have an organization at all.

This applies to countries as well, western workers derive their increased quality of life by exploitation of the third world. Increased value production is always predicated on exploitation of a lower class, even in nature this is the case, following the food chain.

AI won't free anybody, it's just not possible for it to do so.

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