Like communism, capitalism has failed, and for many it is just a ride until the end, with perhaps a view as to when to jump off. All hopes are for as peaceful a disintegration as we had in the Soviet Union.
But such a resignation would be to miss a tremendous opportunity, and that is to begin a business that is formed with the aftermath of capitalism in mind.
What do we see that "works," in the sense that it will not die even if capitalism does die? Those businesses that seem to thrive all depend on some sort of redistribution to thrive, with the target of redistribution being ever more oppressed.
Look at what is gone, the targets of the redistributionists: small businesses, family businesses. Look what is thriving: WalMart and fancy restaurants. WalMart is the obvious beneficiary of redistribution, but fancy restaurants? You bet, the government worker and big business expense account, and those executives in industry and government whose paycheck goes to buy a lifestyle presented at such restaurants.
If an when capitalism falls, what will work? Small manufacturers, small businesses, free of the Einsatzgruppen that has fanned out to destroy initiative and freedom. Object to the reference of Einsatzgruppen? Tell that to the American Indian and those of some African heritage. The "white" man is only now objecting because of the massive snooping, forced compliance with "health care", unconstitutional search and seizure, and arbitrary violence has come to his part of town. When that is lifted, so small business will revive, and all the good that comes from that.
Now the corporation is a capitalist construct, a means to keep the profits and pass the loss onto the taxpayers. In a weird sense of fairness, you too can have a corporation. So in post-capitalism, no corporations. No rule against them, just no rule for them. So then what?
The co-op. No ownership, except in the collective. Now this is nothing new. In Seattle alone there are dozens of venerable institutions that work on this model. There are whole apartment buildings, there are parks, there is Group Health for medicine, PCC for food, and REI for recreational gear. Lemme see... food, housing, recreation, parks, what else? Education? We could do better, and I'll pitch Seattle Teachers' College as a model. Clothes, well, in Seattle there are those whose fashion sense is Full Rainier. And if you have twenty dollars in your pocket, you can always go pop some tags. Mass transportation? Kids are working that out with their smart phones. What else? Ooo! A coffee shop.
Who knows, as Bastiat said, it's the unseen that matters, as we saw after telephones were deregulated by Carter in 1980.
So in forming a company, find your passion (what makes you suffer) and what gives you joy in solving the problem, then work as a sole proprietor until you grow to where you need help. At that time form a co-op. As you contract with people to help out, make it clear that they are there as apprentices, with a view that within a year or two they will leave to start their own companies, division of labor, making the entire community more wealthy by more options and prices always falling so more people can afford more options with their own money (the true definition of wealth).
And lock into your head, a co-op's customers are the owners. Got that? Talk about the customer being first, etc. Co-ops get that pitch-perfect.
Right now a co-op is very hard, not too hard, but very hard, and in capitalism people who want to work are owned (in the street sense) by the State. So yes, it is hard, but as I have said before, there is no more revolutionary act one can perform than start a business.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
But such a resignation would be to miss a tremendous opportunity, and that is to begin a business that is formed with the aftermath of capitalism in mind.
What do we see that "works," in the sense that it will not die even if capitalism does die? Those businesses that seem to thrive all depend on some sort of redistribution to thrive, with the target of redistribution being ever more oppressed.
Look at what is gone, the targets of the redistributionists: small businesses, family businesses. Look what is thriving: WalMart and fancy restaurants. WalMart is the obvious beneficiary of redistribution, but fancy restaurants? You bet, the government worker and big business expense account, and those executives in industry and government whose paycheck goes to buy a lifestyle presented at such restaurants.
If an when capitalism falls, what will work? Small manufacturers, small businesses, free of the Einsatzgruppen that has fanned out to destroy initiative and freedom. Object to the reference of Einsatzgruppen? Tell that to the American Indian and those of some African heritage. The "white" man is only now objecting because of the massive snooping, forced compliance with "health care", unconstitutional search and seizure, and arbitrary violence has come to his part of town. When that is lifted, so small business will revive, and all the good that comes from that.
Now the corporation is a capitalist construct, a means to keep the profits and pass the loss onto the taxpayers. In a weird sense of fairness, you too can have a corporation. So in post-capitalism, no corporations. No rule against them, just no rule for them. So then what?
The co-op. No ownership, except in the collective. Now this is nothing new. In Seattle alone there are dozens of venerable institutions that work on this model. There are whole apartment buildings, there are parks, there is Group Health for medicine, PCC for food, and REI for recreational gear. Lemme see... food, housing, recreation, parks, what else? Education? We could do better, and I'll pitch Seattle Teachers' College as a model. Clothes, well, in Seattle there are those whose fashion sense is Full Rainier. And if you have twenty dollars in your pocket, you can always go pop some tags. Mass transportation? Kids are working that out with their smart phones. What else? Ooo! A coffee shop.
Who knows, as Bastiat said, it's the unseen that matters, as we saw after telephones were deregulated by Carter in 1980.
So in forming a company, find your passion (what makes you suffer) and what gives you joy in solving the problem, then work as a sole proprietor until you grow to where you need help. At that time form a co-op. As you contract with people to help out, make it clear that they are there as apprentices, with a view that within a year or two they will leave to start their own companies, division of labor, making the entire community more wealthy by more options and prices always falling so more people can afford more options with their own money (the true definition of wealth).
And lock into your head, a co-op's customers are the owners. Got that? Talk about the customer being first, etc. Co-ops get that pitch-perfect.
Right now a co-op is very hard, not too hard, but very hard, and in capitalism people who want to work are owned (in the street sense) by the State. So yes, it is hard, but as I have said before, there is no more revolutionary act one can perform than start a business.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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