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Hi,

I think both are highly valuable. But I agree that it is remarkable that we appear to be putting in little effort into trying to resolve our societal issues.

I think a new system is required. https://opensocialism.com is my very alpha initial version that I'm trying to iterate on. Are you interested in helping? :O




Sure, looks interesting!


Nice one :)

Generally the logic of the work is:

1. Capitalism is poor at providing value to the majority (eg. globally the top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 99%) and ensuring the long term survival of the species (eg. protecting the environment). 2. However, until there is actually a viable alternative it is a moot point. People who criticize capitalism tend to be caught up in marxism which in reality is an old, overly simplistic and unstable system. 3. Use the open source model to build a compelling alternative to capitalism which can then be promoted.

I've completed a very alpha version which details the system reasonably well but I guess the current goal is to get help, which I have found difficult.

This is the repo https://github.com/open-socialism/open-socialism.github.io which I am doing the work on. I am on an associated gitter channel.

I am also doing work on another site to help convince people of the problem that I explain here https://github.com/open-socialism/open-socialism.github.io/i... (will put into github soon)

https://opensocialism.com/open-socialism/ is a reasonable overview of the main points of the system.

Uh, anyway.. Any help is welcome in the form of feedback, github issues, PRs or whatever. No pressure :)




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