Why Capitalism is not a Form of Government

Hey guys, welcome back to another educational rant with minimal research involved.

Today's topic is about how there are no true forms of government besides anarchy and capitalism, and why it works so well. This topic is also an example of a much more basic concept of how organized systems maintain themselves long term.

First lets define capitalism. Capitalism is an economic and political system in which private individuals or corporations own and control the majority of the means of production (like factories, land, and machinery). The primary goal of economic activity within this system is to generate profit and accumulate capital.

In simpler terms, its basically just economic natural selection. The individuals best fit to survive get to accumulate the most capital.

Now this has a couple of ramifications. One of them is that the individuals unfit are going to be out competed and live in unfavorable conditions. Another issue that coincides with this is that individuals that have already amassed a large sum of money have an advantage where they can use that money to make more money. For example, invest in a business. Higher an accountant or hire a data analyst to analyze trends to advise you where to invest. This makes it so that even if you are a comparably fit individual, you will still be out competed.

The way this is combated is by the fact that we live in an anarchy. Yeah yeah sure the United States government is a democracy, but that didn't matter much once Lee Harvey Oswald cast his vote via bullet to John F. Kennedy's cranium. In this way it doesn't really matter what kind of organized form of government you have. An individual can still choose whatever they want to do like any of us. Just we so happen as individuals to agree on one thing. That voting about stuff is probably better than killing one another. Now how this loops back to combating an individual from out competing everyone is that if enough people agree to keep this individual in check, they will no longer be able to out compete everyone else.

Take the case of John D. Rockefeller. He was a vicious business man who created the Standard Oil Company and had a strategy to buy out all the other oil companies to form a monopoly and control a finite resource. This would allow him to increase oil prices and people who rely on this resource would be forced to pay and thus being exploited. When the U.S. government ran by the people realized what was going on they put up anti monopoly laws straight away. This contradicted the traditional foundations of capitalism but it was necessary. The exploited people came together to form a system of checks and balances. This is referred to as a mixed economy.

The key driving force behind maintaining a system like an economy is by change. A system that is able to adapt and change and replicate will almost never fail. Take one of the oldest systems around as an example. Life itself. A non stop cycle of replication dating back to 4 billion years ago in the primordial soup of Earths surface. It made it this far by complete accident because it was able to replicate and make enough of itself to defy the odds and continue going. And by being able to change. All the traits evolved are akin to laws in a governing body. Changing rules and systems to ensure success when things start to fail. And sometimes they fail anyway.

An example of such failure being the Soviet Union. Their angle of attack was communism.

Communism is a form of government that uses socialism as its economic system. Where property and assets are owned by the government and any profit or resources it makes is distributed among the people equally. Slight issue was that the "government" was just other people. These people being in positions of power couldn't help but abuse it and thus crashing the system. Famine is what finally toppled the nation that was once a world power; They couldn't make enough potatoes, what a silly reason. The remnants ended up forming the country of Russia which guess what economic system they adopted. Thats right! A mixed economy.

Socialism was good in theory but what good is theory if its proven false in practice. Capitalism, basically economic natural selection, is the ultimate factor in what causes a nation to succeed.

To conclude, when faced with an imperfect ever changing world, the only way to persevere is by changing with it. Or making enough copies of yourself that at least one of them must figure it out.