I feel like this is the case regardless of the system? You can’t just install a “Good” leader once and expect them to provide everyone with equal rights forever. You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc. There are no physically inalienable rights. They are ultimately just ideas and not laws of nature, and thus require enforcement by some human persons, and any such person is subject to corruption by power.
You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc.
Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.
Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.
That is naturally the case. I’m mostly arguing against the idea that the current system is bad because “your rights can be taken away”. Capitalism is bad because its sole purpose (as in “The purpose of a system is what it does”) is redistribution of wealth and power from the poor to the rich, or from working class to owning class if you will.
I feel like this is the case regardless of the system? You can’t just install a “Good” leader once and expect them to provide everyone with equal rights forever. You can’t even build a “Good” system once and expect it to provide you with rights by itself. It would still require well-meaning, educated, active, and organized constituents to continuously stand up for what is right, prevent corruption and abuses of power, etc. There are no physically inalienable rights. They are ultimately just ideas and not laws of nature, and thus require enforcement by some human persons, and any such person is subject to corruption by power.
Keep following the train of thought. If a good system requires well meaning, educated, active members to keep it going, then a good system is one that produces those people.
That is naturally the case. I’m mostly arguing against the idea that the current system is bad because “your rights can be taken away”. Capitalism is bad because its sole purpose (as in “The purpose of a system is what it does”) is redistribution of wealth and power from the poor to the rich, or from working class to owning class if you will.