A Walled City Theory Of Economics, by a guy who knows it's a good idea

So, these crazy kids with their socialism. What's up with that?

And these CEOs having the wealth of nations, am I right?

Pure socialism was bad. Pure capitalism was bad. Pure libertarianism is bad. Pure communism is really bad.

Every nation or district where these were attempted have resulted in failure. Look it up.

So what's the answer?

Well, I'm no economist. Reading Paul Krugman on twitter doesn't count. But I gotta believe the following is a good idea, and would love an explanation of why it isn't.

I think of it as a walled city approach. Each side represents a filter of letting in the good stuff and filtering out the bad. Like this:

SOCIALISM

Everyone has a job, stock in the company, and makes a living wage according to their rank. Good!

Innovation and growth is stifled by the "common good". Bad!

COMMUNISM

The government regulates businesses to eliminate corruption, fraud, and poor quality in the marketplace. Good!

The government takes all the money and property and doles out rations. Bad!

CAPITALISM

The individual has a right to make money and grow as a professional or business owner. Good!

The individual can hoard the wealth of nations while their employees starve and everyone starves. Bad!

LIBERTARIANISM

The individual has a right to land, money, and related freedoms. Good!

The individual can do what they want and never contribute back to the community. Bad!

All the good stuff is inside the walled city, all the bad stuff is outside in the dark. Result: Utopia!

Cool, huh? Like our government filtered in the good aspects of democracy and a republic and filtered out the bad. Or at least, they did...but that's a topic for another day.

It will never happen, of course.
Because greed is inherent in humans - we are, at the end of the day, another breed of mammal trying to dominate each other for resources and mates.
Or as the Real Golden Rule puts it: them with the gold makes the rules.

Our Economic Utopia Nation will still have problems with outside nations siphoning off resources and greedy "alpha" persons inside fighting to hoard power and resources, until it's not workable anymore and we have to start over.

You know....like our country is doing now.

I'd love to know what you think. This will, of course, be roundly poo-pooh'd by the people who stand to lose the most in Utopia. But wouldn't you love to live there? Why or why not?

Status of this blog and my online footprint

Hi. I haven't posted a ton here. I've been busy with the work related blog, which has done as well as Blogger blogs do these days. Am I going to have to join Medium?

But I sometimes miss this corner of my internet acre, and should probably tend to it more.

But what to write about? If there's one thing the world needs a whole lot less of, it's fat old caucasian men blathering about current affairs. People like that are what made the world such a mess lately. Anyway, my non-work twitter and Quora have eaten into that well of ideas.

That leaves...what? 

The occasional essay or short story (I'm not a poet, and I know it). I'm recording music again, finally, and will start posting it on my music YouTube (backing up to Vimeo, and of course mariocaiti.com). Animations and any visual arts I finish will go to Behance, with maybe some Instagrams because I want a reason to lurk there. I don't trust social media with my creative work, and neither should you.

So no plans here. But come say hi sometime.

I should update the blogroll function here, at least. Webrings and blogrolls are the cure for social media, so let's all do that.