4.3 Human Greed

This is not to suggest that it would be easy to create that will.

No, on the contrary, it will be extremely difficult to get people to agree to eliminate the benefits of capital investment—and not just among capitalists, but among all Americans who imagine or fantasize themselves to be one day wealthy capitalists. All those who buy into the American myth, including poor Americans on Medicaid and food stamps working for Walmart.

Human greed is, of course, the major impediment to coöperation. Greed is also the greatest threat to an ongoing coöperative enterprise.

And it is unlikely to go away any time soon.

Coöperation will not be easily achieved precisely because of the ideology of capital investment. It may take a generation. Or perhaps the failure of purportedly more radical change, like the supposed abolition of property.

But I believe it will come. I believe it is in our future. I believe it will, soon, displace our punitive extractive liberal democratic regimes of capital.