There were things before capitalism. Capitalism is one link in a chain that stretches back into history. We can intuit that there will be things after capitalism.
If we want to get more complicated, some things that come after capitalism are crystalizing right now.
I would say capitalism is dying. Its own contradictions and calcification is killing it. Power tries to keep power, money has inertia and stops innovation and freshness by congealing and pooling like clots. Maybe anarchists are just capitalists creating the next innovation: survival.
Although I'm sure what I just said, Peter Thiel spouts something similar when he talks about why Democracy is outmoded. He thinks the contradictions should lead toward totalitarianism, I think it should lead to some kind of non-hierarchical pirate utopia. Time will tell. (Democracy + wizards👍)
But under capitalism, we have to let all ideas compete in the marketplace, so I'm sure if there ever is one we'll hear about it without it being suppressed or censored. 😉
Seriously, read Capitalist Realism, or watch a youtube video about it, because being a doomer about something like this is doing their propaganda for them.
You are conflating market economics with capitalism. That is a rhetorical trick the capitalist class has used forever, to great effect. Every economic system uses market economics.
Money is green paper. It represents value. People do things for others because of the value it has to themselves and to their community. And not all value is material.
Nurses, teachers, and the many other industries that are underpaid disprove this. If you can't do anything without monetary incentive then that's a you problem
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There were things before capitalism. Capitalism is one link in a chain that stretches back into history. We can intuit that there will be things after capitalism.
If we want to get more complicated, some things that come after capitalism are crystalizing right now.
Seriously, read Capitalist Realism, or watch a youtube video about it, because being a doomer about something like this is doing their propaganda for them.
What can we change? Democratic workplace, no longer a dictatorship.
Boom, socialism
It's putting it in the control of the workers whose labor generates it, where they can democratically decide how it ought to be distributed.
Capitalism and the use of currency aren't synonymous.
Machines take people to maintain and require input from people to run. Those are workers.