Reddit reviews Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Wellbeing: this is a bit too broad for a single source, so I'll leave it be.

Life Expectancy past childhood (see comments for good stuff)

Violence point is important and should be addressed.

Work more than ever

Friendship/Relationships: This one seems difficult (though not impossible) to corraborate, I'll leave it for someone else.

Mental Illness Author provides sources.

Systematic Destruction: Please tell me you recognize this.

Poverty Line:
They're likely referring to the absolute cut-off (i.e. $/day statistic). This measure has changed, and did recently with fun results.That doesn't necessarily mean poverty has worsened, but it does mean more info is needed for either conclusion.

BlahBlahWelfare: He makes a good point for the most part. Capitalism cannot "lift" people out of poverty; these changes are nothing more than the benefits of changing access to technology. It is the Capitalists system that they exist under that maintains their poverty, rather. Case in point: Food(They provide sources).

WorkorStarve: Our overproduction would imply people are excessively working beyond our need. Why should we work 40 hrs a week when everyones needs can be satisfied for less? Thoes are entire hours out of peoples lives that they could spend with their Children, or family and friends. How much pain is caused by social isolation and stresses rooted in the time we spend isolated and detached from our social reality? Humans are social creatures, we need interaction to stay healthy.

HunterGatherer: Does it matter? What I preffer is a system which recognizes human reality. Capitalism often seeks to substitute actual need for simple pleasures. These may help, but they will never fix the underlying problems of our daily lives. I.e. We're taken advantage of every day of our lives without need, I'd rather this didn't happen. Whether I preffer a Hunter-Gatherer society is irrelevant.

Vision: This is, by far, the greatest point against your claim to have read/understood Marx.

"My society will be perfect and rosy and wonderful and we'll have labor vouchers and no money and democracy and blah blah blah." If you put any effort into understanding Socialism, you'd find very quickly that imagining the future post revolution is meaningless and unhelpful. People used to do it. Alot. And then Marx and pals came around and realized it didn't do anything but satisfy the imagination. It wasn't real or material. If you want your kick of imagination, feel free to go read some Utopian Socialists, there's a plethora of them. If you want imagination but slightly more M A T E R I A L and R E A L, read Postcapitalism. Amazon link because im a shill Jeff Pezzos fill my buthole dadE.

TradeCapitalism: You're the only one living in a fantasy.

Also put some effort into your source finding, I've found most of the sources I use on google. It tooke me 5 minutes at most for the things I sources. Should /u/why_are_we_god have posted sources? Sure! Should him not mean his points are invalid? No.

Also just watch the damn video. Not everyone has as much dispensable time as I to write a thesis for you.

Edit: Fixed up Poverty point

Which brings us to another emerging contradiction of Capitalism: aren't all digital goods just ideas stored on some computer much like how an idea is stored in a human brain? Thus, there is no such thing as an "equilibrium in the same sense within a marketplace of" digital goods also, correct? How are prices even being set on digital goods as we speak? There must be some monopolistic shizzzz going down one would think...

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