If
there is implicit structural inefficiency in contemporary capitalism
is it possible to innovate a remedy? Capitalism applications have
different forms in differing economic circumstances, levels of
sophistication and so forth some being more practical than others.
Capitalism presently has a bias toward expensive means of production
limiting the potential number of product producers, and perhaps
requiring substantial capital investment. If one could invent a
universal hat-making machine easy to make at home it would put hat
makers and related hat making supply industries out of business. The
market is biased against most-efficient, lowest cost methods of
production. The market runs against the present ecological-economic
drive toward lowest-entropy economics as a principle of environmental
conservation.
Traditionally
in classical economics there has been analysis about market
efficiency. With high-speed quantitative trading today that works
with cold-blooded machine-language analysis efficiency of abstract
values for instant speed-of-light dark pool exploitation the concept
of market efficiency also means eliminating the human element from
business and moving toward a version of Adam Smith's capitalism
evolving to consolidation of power for the sake of power. Even so,
capitalism has an innate bias against inventing the lowest cost way
of production such that it would virtually be open source.
Modern
capitalism increasingly favors expensive means of production with
rare limited entry producers such as makers of computer chips.
Transforming common goods into rare and expensive goods for political
control is good sense although corrupt. Though mass production lowers
cost and a corporation produces immense profits social economic
development moves toward capital investment in businesses that
benefit from investment and become more specialized and rarefied in
production moving even beyond few existing rivals. Alternatively
technologies that produce goods at very low cost and require little
public investment are avoided. Inventors are disincentivized to
search for such product inventions with no rewards for producer
efficiency. There is an implicit bias toward expensive means of
production and products that allows a class hierarchy to form
unifying government and corporate political power.
When
a dichotomy develops between producers and consumers on the basis of
corporate hierarchies gathered about an exclusive, costly production
industry democracy obviously dwindles. Though planetary masses may be
drafted into becoming employees and affiliates of the costly
production corporations the efficiency of capitalism suffers. When
political power is taken by economic powers of capitalism even the
potential for finding or inventing low-cost and efficient open source
means of production dwindles. In such a deformed variety of
capitalism anthropogenic entropy increases abnormally quickly.
Capitalism
that has created de facto corporatism and concentration of wealth
through networking and that does not use principles of ecological
economics is existentially unresponsive to national and global
interests. Uncreative minorities that concentrate wealth and power
are repressive minorities of necessity. In a post-18th
century high-tech version of capitalism that is a universally
available method for all citizens because of the willingness of
society to finance ecologically and creative business models there is
no need to seek security within rarefied social strata of wealth. In
an ecologically sustainable national context that is synergistic of
global interests security and ambient lifestyle independence and
satisfaction would be common facts. Capitalism that is
over-concentrated is inefficient and a variety of reforms should be
enacted to relieve the economic state of affairs from a networked
business structure running toward universal plutocratic business
monopoly.
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