Capitalistic Sharing

~ social capitalism. They are not merely competing, and that is it.

Participants in a capitalist economy are part of a shared competition. That participation has both competitive and shared qualities. There certainly is no doubt but that they compete. I do not refute that, but at the same time, we can distinguish it from a raw physical competition, like — Say a wrestling match to the death. That would be intense, right? Much better on The Animal Channel on cable as well. (Didn’t there used to be a channel for extreme animalism?) In the case of raw, physical competition the loser might die. Or else he hangs his head in shame. Or else he just hangs his head and walks offstage. But in capitalism losers don’t get humiliated, particularly. They just don’t get any money from that venture. So what. They walk offstage, maybe to try again with something like the original debacle at some point. Capitalism is full of opportunity. They could find another career doing something similar. I don’t know. Most enterpreneurs score on their third or fourth (or fifth) try.

So much for competition. While capitalism does have elements of competition (and there is a type of person who thrives on that sort of thing), permit me to suggest that it does not follow from that that they are clawing each other to death. I think the fact that they are not doing so makes capitalism that much more appealing (although balanced by the predictable complaints from the raw and physical crowd that these “bourgeois” are not real men. Real men die on battlefields and we believe in blood and guts). But, overall, blood and guts aside: I think it very important to note that it is not “competition to the death.” I mean, I like blood as much as the next guy but . .

Well, in any case the capitalistic system we have lived under for some time now has both competition and sharing. Not only competition and that is it. What are business schools? These are education sites where of information is shared, sp there is certainly sharing. And all the secrets of getting into the business world are being taught, openly, in classrooms. So, come on. That is not competition; that is the sharing. That is what comes just before students go into real life. Finally they go into the real-world experience of business. After nap-time, though.

We are raised, we go to school, we are pampered by or high-class parents, and then finally we go to business school where we are prepared for competition. So up until that point it has this characteristic of a shared experience. It has many, many elements of a social program. They were raised in loving families not like young German Shepards. These successful people who are going to predictably claim to be “real competitors” have lived a whole life of cooperation before they became capitalists, they just don’t talk about it because of their being real men. But most of those “capitalists” started as big social cooperators, with nannies. That is sharing, they just never call it that. No, because it sounds wrong. That would not accord with the ideology. So, no. They (say they) simply “compete.”

The truth is that ideology matters. Concepts matter. They are predictably loyal to the ideology they have. Establishing this ideology is a basic social function. There is a continual intellectual indoctrination going on. It is social. It has to do with information, culture, and much else that goes on between persons. But they do not have to admit it. There are these other things, it isn’t just raw competition. Everything needs to correspond to the correct ideology or these people will go into a rage.

Yet, the ideology has to be flexible. It could still be rejected, it canfail. It needs to do its job. In capitalism, it has to be loose enough to encompass an enormous range of businesses. And there are fringe business, and others. Illegal businesses. By which I mean that capitalism is very adaptive, so some businesses are illegal, some are on the fringe, etc. Trump seems to gravitate towards that as well. But He remans untainted simply because of being rich enough so he can distance himself from the rabble. But a lot of chicaney goes on under his wing, which nobody seems to be prosecuting HIm for.

Some of the fringe elements are there also in the sorts of people associated with Tump, so the Trump style of business may eventually get the top guy into Top Guy Trouble. It probably has to come to many points of antagonism with most of the other large businesses (Wal-Mart?). I would think so, and if this is true I would not be surprised if conditions change for Him. Could some of these mainstream business groups turn against Him? At that point they will then be openly antagonistic. All Trump and his fringe businesses need to do is keep antagonizing them. And Trump cannot help himself, right? He cannot stop doing it.

I have no idea whether this mainstream revolt will happen. But what may we suggest will happen in the future, on the practical level. Soon after Trump dies I think it will all collapse. Trump empire collapses. And do you actually think people will follow Eric or Don jr.? Did dad prepare them? Not for political leadership. Maybe for owning a few hundred million dollars of property. Give me a break already! Come on? Can Don jr. lead in the same way his charismatic dad did??? I really doubt that, but what do I know. My point, which I placed above already, is about the shared competition.

Trump is an outlier. They will destroy him. Trump just does not have the intellectual skill to win. He cannot defend his policies. If He keeps merely trying to impose them, based on being the prez, without creating an informed voter base, why would anybody vote for him or his successor? It is more likely that some other figure, such as Vance, will take over with different policies. It Trump is nothing else, He is shortsighted.

HE is shortsighted. A big man, but No VISION.

We all share capitalism. It is not purely individualistic. It is basically a social enterprise and that matters.