Economics

I think that the fundamental flaw of our economies, is that they weren't created with rules in the first place. We just took the vague notions of trade and coinage, then began to add the rules after the fact. What if we did a hard reboot, but with an economic Constitution to guide the economic system?

For such a system, I believe we would want three things at the most basic level:

1: Transparent and simple rules. Ordinary people should be able to easily identify and troubleshoot the excessively wealthy.

2: Universal but boring benefits that guarantees survival for everyone, with a basic income. Money is for buying upgrades to lifestyle, not survival. Jobs are for affording to buy more expensive luxuries, like vacations to a foreign land, attending the theatre regularly, and so forth.

3: Absolute floors and ceilings on income, assets, and wealth. Beyond a specific point, wealth is taken as tax.

Well, the largest expeditor of the problem, but still done by and for an infection.

We still made huge impact to the ecosystems in the past too, it's just that we now no longer destroy only local ecosystems.

I think its just nature and nature is brutal.

We are animals, we need to destroy the environment to survive (ex cut down trees for shelter, kill living things to eat). We have the urge to reproduce, so there is more of us which leads to more destruction. If a person is threatened, they will be prepared to kill another for their survival. This is pretty much true for most living beings.

I wouldn't call us a virus, but it was probably our intelligence that will bring us to our downfall. Maybe an anthropologist can comment on what the tipping point was.

A lot of folks in the replies don't like imagining they might be problematic... Sorry folks; we're all to blame.

Easy answers are never right. So capitalism is not >the< problem. For example: Look at the the history of the Soviet Union. Its way more complex