Reply #125: Maybe some of what you say might work...

[Silent3]

...but the only reasonable way to find out would be to try it on a small scale somewhere and see what happens -- as opposed to, say, plunging the entire world all at once into this new system and hoping that works out.

My comments so far have all been made in light of the OP for this thread, especially the fairly naive notion that all of the current discontent in the world, further magnified by the OP's prediction of some sort of imminent final collapse of the current system, would take the form of a massive rejection of capitalism.

Another point that I'm trying to make that I went into elsewhere in this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9684786&mesg_id=9707565

...is that if you don't want capitalism, especially if you don't want any capitalism at all (I often get mixed messages on that account), that probably can only happen by coming down pretty hard on personal freedoms, a fairly high degree of government interference blocking mutually agreed-upon exchanges among consenting adults.