tombi123 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
tombi123 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
Even if the Scientist doesn't work for money, the tools he uses only exist because someone does.
A computer today allows us to calculate things that would take a thousand years without one. Without capitalism, those computers would not exist.
As for the robot thing...
you must be talking about a futuristic world with technology we have yet to discover. That technology would only be discovered in a Capitalistic society. (or at a minimum, orders of magnitude sooner)
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The technology has already been discovered. The technology and resources are already available for creating robots to perform everyday jobs. The only thing stopping it happening in the immediate future is money. It costs to much to create these high tech robots. In a society without money, this problem doesn't arise.
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The problem us you're looking at a world created with Capitalism, and all it's advantages, and thinking “if we were only socialistic, we could apply these things so much more efficiently”.
If we had that kind of world in the past, we would not have the technology.
To illustrate my point, let's say we did what you proposed, we turned the world into a place without money. We could then employ all the technologies we have learned to this point, and make a world better then we have today.
Fine, we do that. When that's done, in 200 years, we have roughly the same world.
What if we didn't do what you propose, and in 200 years due to continued advances in technologies, we have pills that cure cancer in the grocery store, and fission generators the size of a car that power cities.
Which world is better?
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Why would technological advancements stop in a world with no money?
It wasn't capitalism that invented satalite communications, nuclear energy, the internet etc, it was brilliant minds. Capitalism just made it possible in a world were resourses cost money.
In a world with no money, these scientists and brilliant minds don't dissapear. Instead they have better resourses (because they are free) to invent better technology. I think, in a world with no money, technology advances quicker than in a capitalist society.
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