Meritocracy

[vulcanlogician]

Marx.  He assumed an end state where all is fair and yet motivating, all good, no bad, and does not investigate why such fantastic obviousness had never occurred to another to propose.

I have problems with Marx's ideal too. He thinks greed will disappear with capitalism... in fact, he thinks capitalism is the cause of greed. I think he is partially correct here... or (it might be more accurate to say) capitalism exacerbates greed.

But I wholeheartedly disagree with Marx that greed will disappear with capitalism. Greed and desire are inseparable from our natures. But that doesn't mean we need to live in a system centered around our greed and desire.

I agree with Marx that living in a system centered around greed and desire (capitalism) is stupid... it's abusive and parasitic to most of the people who live under it. It isn't moral. Period.

According to Marx (and I agree with him here) people innately want to produce and create. It is a part of human nature. This human propensity to create and produce, left untouched by the exploiters, could feed and clothe the world ten times over. But the extremely wealthy won't let that happen. They want their "cut." And since the system is centered around them getting their cut, the world isn't fed and clothed even ONCE. AS IT EASILY COULD BE!

Capitalism twists the creative and productive aspect of human nature into avarice. So (while I disagree with Marx that greed will disappear with capitalism) I also see where he's coming from when he says capitalism causes greed.