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Originally posted by necro-lover
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Okay you have just shown you have 0 comprehension of Capitalism right there. You've gotten yourself caught up into stupid corporatism which is an economic strategy for failure.
Capitalism itself has inherently NOTHING to do with money, it is simply Federalism as applied to the economy. Now to properly understand Capitalism, you have to understand that there are 3 levels of Labour
1. Labour of Love - an individual is working on something because it's something they really want to do, this is the highest and best form of labour because it means that not only is the work done faster/better, but when a person sees something that needs to be fix or something that's a good idea they'll take the initative and do it.
2. Labour of Greed - an individual is working for the money, they'll do what they're supposed to in order to get the money, but they're really not going to go out of their way to improve the product unless there is some incentive for them to do so.
3. Labour of Slavery - an individual is forced to work typically by the government, but in situations where slavery exists can be a result of that. This form of labour results in utterly terrible work, because the individual doesn't want to do the work and so obviously their work is going to be slipshod.
Now Capitalism and Communalism (note not communism) are the Peer to Peer and Server Client attempts to get to the highest form of labour respectively. Communism has the fatal flaw in that it tries to force the commune on everyone thereby not understanding communalism and simply resulting in the lowest form of labour. Socialism aka Corporatism aka Keynsianism shoots for #2 but when #3 is available it goes for that because the consolidation of power that results means the corruption of those positions of power.
Capitalism works when the federal government keeps it's nose out of it, This is very important because federalism and capitalism are predicated upon the goverment basically being a microkernel at the top, with the regional and lower governments being restricted to their own address space and not touching that of others. So California for instance can go off and be completely socialistic while not negatively effecting say Nevada for instance, in many cases California being socialist will hurt itself with having a positive effect on the less restrictive governments because businesses are incentivised to work there instead of in California. Capitalism and Federalism both break the moment someone succeeds in saying "I think our federal government should be doing X as well", and the moment they succeed it stops being federalism and capitalism and the robustness of the system is lost.
Now Communalism relies completely on barrier to entry, being the server client version it has to set up a situation where only people who want to be there are, in the case of the FOSS ecosystem it's releasing your code under an open source license and it's for the best if it's GPL because that further raises the barrier to entry. Now obviously since you're creating a barrier to entry you're creating the scaling issues inherent in the server client model and if the server breaks down or the barrier to entry weakens such that the average person can just leech off of the commune the system becomes broken. It should be pretty obvious therefore as to why Communism fails.
It is important to note here that both Capitalism and Communalism are Meritocracies.
Socialism, Corporatism, Keynsianism is simply a tool for consolidating power structures and thus breaking governments and economies. Now the average footpad, doesn't actually understand this, they've simply been convinced by people seeking greater power that it's the job of the government to do x,y, & z rather than understanding that the government itself is a power structure and should therefore be limited. In a federalist context the system can survive these games so long as the federal government itself doesn't become a successful target. Think of it like a cancer, how cancer kills you is not it's effect in the localized area but when it grows large enough to start effecting and screwing over the rest of the system. In a federalist/capitalist society because of the compartmentalization these systems can be let to receive their natural deaths and reform anew.
So no, Capitalism is not about grow or die. It's about maintain the highest form of labour or have your product suffer and fall under because of it. Also one thing you really need to note about software that does not apply to anything else is that it's nigh impossible to kill, particularly when it comes to FOSS software but it doesn't have to be. The Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn, Haiku, and AROS are perfect examples of software living on after it's original "Death".
In any case you're just one of a number of trolls including FunkSTAR that have arisen from some ring of hell for some reason recently, but I hope that this economic/government lesson helps you to pull your head out of your ass.
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