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National Capital Concentration for the Rich Has Made U.S.A. a Peer of Haiti, Uganda and Turkmenistan

The state of capitalism in the United States- the growing inequality in the distribution of wealth that has brought the United States down to the level of Uganda, Haiti and Turkmenistan ( Gini coefficient - Wikipedia ) Countries ranked by GINI index (World Bank estimate). The shape of an economy always affects social conditions. The political economy of global plutocrats is different from a rural agrarian society for instance as the United States largely was before the end of the civil war (though urban manufacture continued to grow quickly). The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

The evolution of American capitalism following the end of the cold war and the end of Roosevelt-era high taxes on the rich, along with government debt of vast size has definitely changed the political economy. Both parties support corporatism and elements of socialism (e.g. bail-outs of General Motors and Big banks after the 2008 debacle. Fifty million Americans have about 1/2 of 1% of the national income. Student loan debts exceed a trillion dollars, ordinary housing prices average about a quarter of a million dollars, the national ecosystem is steadily being degraded and species extirpated, one party supports legal drugs, abortion, homosexual marriage and illegal immigration in order to build a majority of support on the foundation of vice. The broadcast media is owned by the rich and conditions the people toward consumption and daily hate of opposition party leaders while providing silly yellow tabloid issues to follow; these are signs of the times of the state of networked capitalism where a small percent of the people own or control most of the nation’s wealth and income.

Even so I would tend to support the opinion that original sin is the root cause of the nation’s social problems and corruption of the efficacy of capitalism for everyone that should serve everyone very well without dark areas of hidden poverty, oppression or ecospheric degradation.

Bootstrapping Production During Economic Collapse

There are innumerable forms of economic collapse. And there are counter-cyclical investments and businesses. During the Greek civil war there was, I recall, a fellow who had horded wheat before the collapse and sold bread for exorbitant prices during the collapse when people were starving. I believe he was later executed or punished in some way.

Bear markets have people that profit from them and even win ‘bets’ on the collapse of the economy. Short selling has made fortunes for good guessers. Even inflation can drive up real estate values- though one should keep in mind that real estate as capital is very small today in comparison to manufacturing and financial capital.

On a micro-economic basis I would think that bootstrapping production for-oneself might be useful as a safeguard against starvation. One might grow plants at home for food and the market, produce solar and wind power and find other simple items to manufacture that are necessary.

Why Cuba is More Separated than China from U.S. Economics

Cuba is a communist nation just 80 miles from the United States. Normalizing relations would allow its agents to work misanthropic acts in the United Sates. So the controls are a prophylaxis against communist subversion. China on the other hand is at a distance and too large to ignore. It is relatively harmless to ignore Cuba since it has little military or economic power, yet China with 1.3 billion people and a large nuclear weapons arsenal cannot be safely ignored.

Chinese Communism is one of two vast political threats to political and spiritual freedom remaining on the planet (the other is Muhammadism). With the end of the former Soviet Union Communist China presented the greatest challenge to free people in the political ideological battle between free people and government authoritarianism.

Communist Chinese leadership had begun moving toward limited free markets following the Nixon administration beginning at normalizing relations in order to move beyond the Vietnam War era paradigm with the Soviet Union investing in S.E. Asian and global political military intervention through arms supplies and military advisers. There may have been a divide and conquer element to the Kissinger-Nixon method since China and Russia had a certain mutual belligerency over Siberian-Chinese borders and leadership of the communist world.

At any rate the Chinese naturally moved toward limited free markets and relationship with the west over time because the free markets of free individuals is far more dynamic and productive than government owned and directed economics. China has other issues than those of political philosophy however; it has so many people that government discipline is required to keep the population from exploding and chaotic civil wars from breaking out- dynamic wars more of non-ideological demographics and economics rather than pure theory. It may be illuminated by saying China is like a tinder-dry barn full of hay and gasoline in barrels that requires government repression to keep fire from breaking out. A socialist-capitalist fight with light sabers in the barn wouldn’t really be good for anyone in China.

The worst thing about neo-communist China with its repressive government is abortion and the one-child per family policy that has existed for decades. China would have 3 or 4 billion people without it fairly quickly. The world cannot imagine what that would do; it’s really not good to think about because of the possible famines and etc.
I guess China will need to evolve a political economy with the best situation for individual rights, the best ecospheric restoration it can manage and good virtual reality for entertainment; in fact a healthy ecosphere with lots of wildlife would be entertainment for so many people too.

Cuba is likely to be moderately separated from the United States until China is no longer a repressive authoritarian threat to its own people and the free world. There are a lot of American sailors that would like to be able to legally sail to Cuban marinas and return normally. Sadly that will have to wait perhaps until all of the southern ocean reefs perish, dead zones expand so there are no fish in the sea and the waters become far more acidic.

Capitalism is Misunderstood

Capital is nothing more than material goods of value. A horse is capital, for example. A building is capital- even the fish in the oceans are capital. The primary difference in kinds of capital are those existing in nature such as trees, fresh water, land, ice, air and those natural products with value added by human manufacturing.

Since even atoms are the electro-magnetic field and forces of nature are capital, it becomes rather silly to talk about capital-ism as if there is just one means of exploiting or producing capital. In the Bible book of Genesis God manufactures, issues or emanates all of the capital of the Universe in a few days or movements. Then mankind appeared and eventually Cain killed his brother Abel. 

Cain is regarded as the first metal-worker and Abel the first tiller of soil (farmer). Each were capitalists. I suppose even Gilligan enjoying the natural capital of a south sea island was a capitalist enjoying the fruits of God’s labor.

The individuals working manufacturing goods from atoms and etc such as computers (with silicone and other items including minerals) are the primary way that mankind manufactures products from natural materials increasing man-made capital. It is ironic that some of the manufacturing processes destroy or corrupt natural capital, or simply use it up to extinction.

Government is necessary in some cases to keep some powerful people or groups from building enough power to ‘own’ everything in the world. Even governments may try to own everything in the world. Individuals are the best inventors of idea-capital and manufacturable ideas and methods yet are usually weak at governance; there assertion to govern other people would be regarded as tyrannical and resisted by others. Governments too may be tyrannical, ineffective or corrupt as the case may be.

Government purpose in an efficient mode is to defend individual rights to own ideas and processes to manufacture. Government must also defend the ecosphere health and natural capital so individuals may continue to exist with health. Today the planet’s atmospheric carbon dioxide rate is more than 415 parts per million- that is worse than in has been since human beings came down from the trees and Adam and Eve’s kids merged in with them. The dynamic tension is fascinating; nations full of people that don’t understand basic political philosophy and regard libertarian versus socialism as dialectical approaches to capital. Even communist governments such as the former Soviet Union had capital and were capitalists plus socialists, in effect making the citizens slaves of the communist party leadership.

The real context is between free individuals within democracy with political and economic egalitarianism, socialist slave owners and oligarchs and plutocrats hiding behind ‘capitalism’.

USA Can Never Guard Mexico's Southern Border

If Mexico asked the U.S. Government to guard its southern border, that would be about the sole legal circumstance that could be justified for placing U.S. troops there, unless Mexico first attacked the United States, and the United States went to war with Mexico and sought to stop Guatemala, Belize, Venezuela etc. from sending troops to fight on the Mexican side.

If aggressive, hostile, human flesh-eating aliens debarked from ufo landing craft south of Mexico such as Martians in The War of the Worlds, and began slaughtering their way north, and were in sufficient numbers to be a concern for the United States, Democrats of Congress would debate for a few months sending special investigators and inhuman rights specialists to determine if the illegal Martian aliens were being treated properly and if the Trump administration should be impeached for showing a rude and disrespectful attitude toward the aliens.

A better choice for any U.S. administration that would like to guard Mexico’s southern border might be to cut a deal with Guatemala and Belize to provide free border protection for those nations in exchange for a couple of billion dollars worth of solar panels, agricultural tools, water purification, desalinization devices and so forth annually. Guatemala and Belize may wish to have border control and keep track of who goes north on an entirely legal basis. Coordinating with Mexican immigration officials, non-Mexicans might need an o.k. from Mexico to enter, and Mexico in turn would be accountable if the people they admitted continued on north to attempt illegal entry into the U.S.A.

Why There Isn't Really a Capitalist System

Capital may be regarded as material and intellectual goods of value. They are objects of a sort. There is no system of objects, nor capital. Capital objects just exist.

Some capital was manufactured by nature; the sun, the moon, the stars, oceans, land etc. People have added value to some natural capital, *manufacturing* things.

Manufacturing items for most of human history in Earth has been done best by individuals rather than bureaucracies. Individuals invent rather than collectives. Human collectives that are government tend to repress individualism and individual invention. Socialist governments tend toward expropriating all capital and objects for themselves, rather than inventing new manufactured items or inventions. They imagine employing and ossifying the private sector inventors and producers for themselves too. All of the capital both natural and manufactured are regarded as the property of bureaucrats in government who in theory allocate such as the masses need, to the masses.

Free enterprise is a good way of manufacturing capital. it is not such a good way at conserving, enhancing, defending or restoring natural capital. Authoritarian governments, if such existed, that understood what ecological economics are and were motivated to bring such into existence, might accomplish that better than a democracy. In fact they might restore the environment as quickly as an absolute monarch or dictator. That would be simply an exercise of power rather than the enactment of an ideal political system.

An ideal political system would protect and restore the world ecosphere to health or national parts of the world while simultaneously implementing an ecologically sustainable for the long run economy, within free enterprise democracy parameters. The paradox of a disciplined political economy protecting individual civil rights and ecological sustainability together is in practical terms difficult to get done.

Free enterprise invention creates new goods, products and services best. Government can protect and direct respiration of the environment best. Healthy and adequate manufactured and natural capital is what are requisite for a moderately egalitarian society with liberty and justice for all.

If Brits Told Pres Trump Demo Candidates Embezzled Money Is That Wrong?

If the British Government MI-5 agency told President Trump about criminal activities and American Presidential candidate perpetrated abroad, would that be wrong? Apparently several Democrat Party leaders and media think so.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/448529-biden-trumps-comments-on-accepting-intel-from-foreign-entity-are-dead-wrong

If foreign governments or individuals have information about Democrat Party criminal activities who are they supposed to tell in the U.S. Government?  The President is the Executive branch of government so telling the F.B.I. or President is telling the President's chain of command. In fact the President is the right guy to tell about any criminal activities of Democratic Presidential candidates including foreign deposits to hidden bank accounts.

I suppose it would make no difference if the foreign intelligence source was from a friendly or usually adverse government except as regards the credibility of the account. If Dictator Kim Un reports that some Democratic candidate has unusually bad breath and conceals it with a foreign breath mint containing opium for instance, the report might need more scrutiny and special F.B.I. investigation for verification. Don't trust, yet verify.

If some Democrat Party candidates are members of dark web child exploitation sites and the news was discovered by foreign intelligence agencies should they send the pictures to wikileaks or President Trump. My guess is that the President is the right guy for the job of apprehending the perpetrators.

What is a Reformation of Capitalism?

Capitalism isn’t anything more than property that is owned; even if by a socialist government. It is possible to build capital and capital infrastructure in as many ways as human or natural processes exist. When stars burn and go nova they produce different capital elements. When it rains water capital flows on the land’s surface and produces rivers. When an individual imagines up an invention he or she has created intellectual capital that may be converted into material capital or an intellectual product such as an algorithm. Capital need not be reformed so much as human approaches to utilizing and creating capital do.

Government is supposed to protect public interests in a democracy. Government is an expression of concatenated individual self-interests. The public has an interest in protecting the common environment rather than degrading or destroying it. The public has an interest in protecting individual self-interests and the right of individuals to build their own capital; government should serve those interests. The government also has an interest in defending itself against powers and persons that would end its effective public functions.

It can sometimes become necessary to tax rich individuals punitively to destroy their acquisition of too much political power through concentration of capital that democracy and functions of government in carrying out its primary duties are undermined. Presently the over-acquisition of capital and political power that follows economic hegemony adversely impacts environmental defense and recovery. The over-concentration of wealthy has created an implicit economic bias against all of the citizens that are not in the very small minority of super-rich networked plutocrats; they have an uneven economic field to work in to try to build up their own capital quantitatively and qualitatively. It is even possible that developing political plans and economic modalities that are better suited to the ambient ecospheric and demographic elements is prevented for the majority as concentrated wealth networks pursue their narrow self-interest in building their own capital.

I would tax the upper 5 % of income earners in the nation at 70% and the upper 1% at 90%. It would be a good idea to reduce patent exclusivity to three years and allocate 10% of royalties to the inventor-patent holder thereafter. In order to develop a sustainable ecological economic infrastructure there should be incentives for creating low-entropy, sustainable economic developments.

Ecological zoning should be made to develop a no net loss of surface biota construction ethic.

In times past it was recognized that the state has an interest in assuring that its citizens can defend themselves and compete with state-of-the-art universal literacy and education. Public education at all levels should be free for citizens though private educational establishments should continue for-profit as well as non-profit. A basic universal right of citizens to have some sort of a minimum income and private storage and living unit to keep citizens from being caught in roiling abject poverty currents should exist in a demography saturated with surveillance, law enforcement and urban risks for the homeless. In the American past the wild frontier and cheap property values made basic existence simpler. Today the simple legal right to exist someplace and sleep may be so exclusive as to render otherwise law abiding citizens criminals simply for being alive.

Ideal

Ideas- such a platonic realism has- don't exist IMO- just nominalism in lexical ontologies- atoms have forms though, as does math, that are ideal.

God has all ideas and forms possible- and for God perhaps everything is possible except the finitude of possibility.