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Socialism vs Capitalism: Systems Thinking Reveals a Radically Different Perspective
A systems thinking approach to the nature of economics and hierarchy
There is a tremendous amount of posting and debating on social media about capitalism and socialism. Mostly, it consists of biased news articles, philosopher quotes and a whole lot of political party fealty.
Almost nobody is discussing these subjects in the context of systems/complexity theory which has already been well established as the definitive scientific and philosophical understanding and explanation of emergent systems of which economies, government, culture, society, are all quintessential examples used in introductory courses on the theories and I really mean those are just course 101 topics.
“In some theories of particle physics, even such basic structures as mass, space, and time are viewed as emergent phenomena, arising from more fundamental concepts such as the Higgs boson or strings. In some interpretations of quantum mechanics, the perception of a deterministic reality, in which all objects have a definite position, momentum, and so forth, is actually an emergent phenomenon, with the true state of matter being described instead by a wavefunction which need not have a single position or momentum. Most of the laws of physics…
