This page isn't pro or con any economic philosophy, it's just an observation about a common fiction.The page could be called 'capitalist fiction' or 'Canadian fictions' or anything else. Socialism is used as an example because its a popular example in the news.

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A big part of some philosophies is the so called 'class struggle'.

Is there a problem with some people making a million dollars and some people not making anything? Of course.

Is the problem the result of some deficiency in an economic system? Of course not.

If you are making a million dollars and your employees are making a tiny fraction of that then you are not an honest employer and should not be in charge of a company.

If you then try to skew other peoples' values in your favor by pretending that you 'earn' your money legitimately but your employees earn much less with the same legitimacy, then you are one of the roots of the socialist fiction, even if you call yourself 'anti socialist'.

In any system, whether tribal or melting pot, there are unethical people. It is silly to build an entire philosophy around one tiny aspect of that concept.

In melting pots unethical people generally congregate, form gangs, then give themselves power.

In a tribal society there is less tendency to do that because there are no 'complete strangers'.

'Class' issues are a fundamental product of melting pots. For example India's caste system is trailing evidence of a past melting pot mass assimilation. It isn't evidence of some flawed economic system, it is evidence that a powerful group assimilated a weaker conquered group, then used their greater fluency with the economy of the day, regardless which economy, to subdue the conquered. The 'powerful group' was initially a race or tribe, but eventually became simply the 'race' of unethical people.

So the root problem pre exists any economic system and won't be solved by any new economic system. A person can read any religious or philosophical book, from any grounded religion, and find the solution. Simple ethics.

Turning the problem into a fictional disease called 'capitalism' or 'communism' is no more a solution than solving measles by painting the blemishes with makeup. Not only does it not solve the problem, it obscures it.

Human interpersonal psychology always involves projection, and a person develops the ability to perceive things internally by first recognizing them externally, whether bad or good. 

A genuinely homogenous group would never build and develop the fiction of 'class struggle' to represent the issue of individual ethics. In other words a tribal group easily identifies, and solves, ethical issues accurately without distorting the issue to benefit their gang.

A melting pot must create bigger and bigger fictions to avoid crashing in the contradictions that formed it.

Between two competing homogenous i.e., tribal, societies, there is a healthy development of 'ethics'.

But between competing melting pots there is only the development of more and more elaborate disease.

 

~In Progress