#SuckerThoughts
a joke i was going to make about this was ‘if i recognise the state’s right to imprison and kill me, doesn’t that basically make me the state’ but that’s actually exactly how liberal democracy is supposed to work
Thing is, you can make capital from scratch.
I mean, in a free society you can go fishing, catch some fish, and then trade them for cash and now you’ve got capital to invest.
People act like capitalist principals are something that only apply to some guy in a silk tophat somewhere. But in fact these are basic functional agreements that allow society to function.
Except that someone owns the lake you’re fishing in - either a private individual, or others indirectly through the State. And if no one owns it, such as schools of fish in the open, then, based on how things are going in the real world, overfishing happens.
So this doesn’t really work as an example. Creating capital requires either land or stuff taken from land, for the most part, which is a challenge if all land is owned - as it would be expected to be if owning land is profitable.
Now, granted, it’s less likely to have huge problems under some boring liberal democratic capitalist government than under a Communist dictatorship or botched attempt at Communism, where the lakes will be poisoned with industrial waste because there are neither property rights nor enforced environmental rules to stop it, but unless you want everyone to own all the land in a trust, this doesn’t really work.