Sep 9, 2006 6:35:05 PM cite

My proposal is to allow states to take property of all industrial and logistic facilities and lend them back to private enterprises or produce in their interests. The states take the advantage of first money, but further they get the possibility to control directly the circumstances of labour, the amount of environmental pollution and can give benefits to innovative new products or concepts. The enterprises take even bigger advantages. They can reduce their staff to a minimum which only includes management, desighn and marketing, this decreases bureaucratic efforts. Then does it take much less money to invest into new projects(factories are no longer to be built, just to be hired) But most important: They can expand freely without fearing to collapse or overexpand, because they can get rid easily of each and every piece of industry within months, without loosing investment or having workers to go on strike. I consider this system easy and practicabilly and to be the future of economy. Especially looking at developments in robotic sciences, which bring forth machines that are capable of producing not one single but several different things, only depending on what is required. - Technologie enpowers the proposed system, because it will enable industry to shift production from one article to another by simply reprogramming(not rebuilding) the assembly lines. This was a long answer to a short but important question and my opinion of the economic future. Good bye and thank you for reading.

by .......OMalley

Sep 9, 2006 3:56:49 PM cite

postcapitalism.

by AvB

Sep 9, 2006 12:50:44 PM cite

When capitalism stand for the becomming of capital so stands optimism for the becomming of an optimal situation. In an optimism state we acknoledge the powers of capitalism and we will use them. At the same time we ask ourselvess; " Are these actoins at this moment the best for all life?", "Is this the most optimal situation for all?" In the optimism state we try to make our view as wide as it can get. In the optimism state there is no thinking in therms of: "We and them" there is only "We" It is all life we are looking at. Written by Adrianus

by Adrianus

Sep 9, 2006 10:55:00 AM cite

Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: If people do not change their mind, their consciousness, it can lead to a catastrophe. There’s nothing after this, you know. I think that after this there would be nothing, if people do not change their ways of thinking and ethical values, because capitalism already had its best times and now naturally declines as everything ever born has to die, like every structure. It has got ugly forms with time and is completely deformed, because people following this system hoped to gain a lot of the experience, to get more free time for personal growing for everyone. It caused the contrary effect: much more exploitation, robbery, and a much stronger deformation of everything. And people will be forced to find another structure. Besides I am convinced that the most important thing is to change ourselves. Because when you search for some information in computer, there is experience and knowledge of a great deal of generations. And yet it’s a yesterday’s information. We should come to a new knowledge.

by Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva

Sep 9, 2006 10:55:00 AM cite

Abbas Beydoun: I do not know... I think after capitalism will be capitalism too. I guess that capitalism as a classifying system will not fall. Capitalism creates other kinds of capitalism which are more progressive, so I can not imagine that we can live now without capitalism.

by Abbas Beydoun

Sep 9, 2006 10:55:00 AM cite

Alvaro Restrepo: I think capitalism in a way has been a perpetuation of Darwin's survival of the strongest, of the fit. I think that humanity has to find a synthesis between the values of solidarity and justice that were in the utopia of socialism and find in the values of competitive democratic societies the sense of freedom. But we cannot sacrifice a freedom in order to have solidarity, the same as we cannot sacrifice solidarity in order to defend freedom or free competition. I think if we do not find a balance between this two ways of functioning in the world there will not be anything after capitalism. So I insist the values of solidarity cannot be sacrificed in order to have freedom, because, otherwise, freedom is that's not authentic freedom, the one that is preached by capitalist systems in, if we do not have a society that is based on the principles of solidarity.

by Alvaro Restrepo

Sep 9, 2006 10:55:00 AM cite

Ana Lucy Bengochea:

by Ana Lucy Bengochea