Capitalism Is About Transformation
Capitalism isn’t about destruction but transformation.
Bringing things into the fold and extracting profit while they move through society
Like natural resources
capitalist are just motivated to transform as much as possible to make as much profit as possible
And sometimes that means collapsing a communist government to gain tons and tons of new customers
the capitalists aren’t trying to destroy these people but subsume them and bring them into the fold
Unless destroying them in profitable for some reason
A good example of collective clinging is clinging to a national identity, patriotism
Clinging, as a primary psychological factor in the human mind, helps drive all human action
Human actions are what build and maintain societies
All sociopolitical reforms and advancements have clinging to thank.
The key thing is that incentives people to work together, not out of kindness and virtue, but out of mutual interest.
That mechanism is actually, in my view, far more reliable than trying to convince people to just be altruistic, the problem with the altruism argument is it relies on people just doing the right thing, which is just not realistic.
It is an acknowledgement that people are, by their very nature, self-interested, and their incentives need to be aligned to get them to participate in mutually beneficial trade. However, what I disagree with is the Marxist-Leninist assumption, which is that people have no altruism, and can have no altruism, and that it needs to be forced somehow.
Human beings do have altruism, even if it doesn't always work . And society can organize around that notion, even if it sometimes fails.
