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  • Socialism is a system that via a people’s democracy mostly puts academics and engineers into power.
    What you call “democracy” is liberal democracy that mostly puts merchants/marketers and lawyers into power.

    A system that puts marketers in power and a system that rewards people for the fruits of their labor according to their ability, are incompatible because the whole job of a marketer/merchants is to profit as much as possible. And the ‘Trias Politica judiciary & law-graduated politicians’ live off of the marketer’s money so they won’t be able to stop their influence on them, unless they can scare them into submission through the fear of socialist revolutions, which they did when the Gilded Age was ending.
    That’s not possible anymore. The Soviet Union has fallen, oligarchic marketers of today are born in wealth and went through a process of ‘retire rich early or live your life chasing profit’ elimination round, unlike those in the 1930s and further automation has caused the marketers to have even more monetary power than those during the Gilded Age.









  • Capitalism rewards trade, patents, grift,
    but above all, sales pitches.

    The richest people in capitalism are the best orators
    and tradespeople at the bazaar.
    It’s what Steve Jobs is most famous for.
    His infamous iPhone sales pitchis infamous the world over.
    It’s what Elon Musk does, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,
    Bill Gates, all of the big wigs in the world.
    And they get rewarded for it like no other.

    It’s why liberal democracy is associated with a person
    on the soapbox trying to sell a crowd,
    whatever they want to hear,
    instead of a people’s democracy,
    that has a council of political entities
    around a table that debate each other,
    where all members have power,
    instead of a capitalist corporate board room,
    with a corporate head that
    appoints its subjects.
    It’s not like neither have one or the other,
    but it’s one more emblematic to their style of governing.

    It’s why the US has Donald Trump.
    What is he good at? What does he do?
    He campaigns, relentlessly. That’s his sole quality.

    Usonians (US citizens) seem to keep thinking that
    capitalism is making money and socialism is when
    capitalism fails at making money.

    And I believe I will slightly go off Marx’ thought and
    explain all socio-economic systems as such:

    Primitivism = Gatherer ideologues + Hunter rule Feudalism = Priestly ideologues + Nobility rule
    Capitalism = Judiciary ideologues + Merchantry rule
    Socialism = Academic ideologues + Engineering rule
    Communism = Copyleft ideologues? + AI rule?





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    Ah yes, the “smart” ones.
    Stable geniuses, and very high IQ, always having had a very high IQ, according to many people.
    And with very strong instincts, more important than any degree in a university.
    Always known how to make the right moves in business.
    You know, the ones people say about that they’re geniuses, and they don’t disagree with them because they’ve been building empires from the ground up.






  • Capilliary democracy,
    or whatever it’s called that Deng Xioaping has introduced.

    I’m talking about layered elections + civic exams.

    Liberal democracy has campaign fraud in it practically by design,
    thus the will of the people becomes the will of the oligarchs right after every election,
    and not even the will of domestic oligarchs for most countries.

    Marx’ idea of democracy hardly got off the ground.
    Lenin’s idea of democracy had the unintended consequence of turning the General Secretary of the communist party as its most powerful position soon after he died.