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altern8yesterday at 9:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm a high school dropout.

What are other economic systems..? Nobody seems to be able to answer, I would be happy to look them up to learn more about them.


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Henchman21yesterday at 10:23 PM

Capitalism brooks no competition. You won’t find another economic system to study that isn’t markedly worse.

Look into what the Blackfoot Indians were doing. Their lifestyle inspired Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs — though he gets it pretty wrong IMO.

But here’s the thing: the Blackfoot didn’t really have an economic system divorced from other systems. It was all part of a whole that valued people and made sure everyone had what they needed.

Now here’s the kicker: Its my belief their society was based on spreading abundance. Whereas Capitalism is based on spreading scarcity.

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