u/BetweenTheWickets

How will innovation be incentivized and encouraged under anarchism? And how will production of goods work? If there is no fiat currency, why would worker co-ops (this is something I've seen tossed around in my post archive search in this sub) become a thing? Will there be other methods of value exchange between worker co-ops?

And what about education necessary to get trained in anything other than the most basic of functions? Will there be some system that incentivizes the creation of education 'institutions' or their equivalent?

Even if worker co-ops become a thing, what about innovation? How would a co-op ever acquire the huge amounts of inter-organizational resources that goes into developing a vaccination for a new disease, for example? How do you create the tools that develop that ability to fight against superbugs? I'm focusing on only healthcare related innovation here because I've seen some implication in some other posts that there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Even if that is generally agreed upon, I would imagine that most people here agree that we wouldn't want to live in a world where the possibility of becoming mortally ill to an evolved strain of strep becomes omnipresent like it once was.

Some context on my political worldview: I don't like the idea of raw, unrestrained capitalism. I feel like capitalism under strict (democratic) government regulation is the best form of socioeconomic organization (a la EU), even if I agree it's not perfect. I find it difficult to envision stateless societies to not eventually become patriarchal, un-innovative, tribalistic and hierarchal (like most primitive societies used to be).

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u/BetweenTheWickets — 14 days ago