What is a less-selfish alternative to capitalism and not communism?

Question

...but still rewards the hardworking.. gives us initiative to do the good and dicourages us to do the bad?

Answer 1

Socialism where individual freedom to ownership is restricted to some extent in respect of certain basic economic activities in order for the society as a whole to prosper. However, this experiment first attempted in India could not really sustain. The middle path in the case of economy seems to be less than successful.

Answer 2

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the population with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics is the persons that are paying the business loans of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Anti-Democracy republicanism is the psychology of imaginary parents, and false government.

Answer 3

TRIBALISM!! It worked for millions of years. Wealth cannot be hoarded in a barter system. How can you store up livestock and produce and pass it on to another generation? Cast off the chains of so-called civilization and live as though man belongs to the world (not the other way around).

Answer 4

If you are asking what are the established alternative doctrines to Capitalism, then as mentioned above it is any number of the collectivist approaches from Socialism to Theocracy.

However if you are asking what is the alternative to the current mess in the world, the simple answer is proportional representation and the dessolution of all financial institutions, the very essence of unequal capitalism.

Answer 5

Socialism. Socialism is based upon the core principles of Communism (power to the working class, no one can be too rich), except in Socialism, the government doesn't have absolute power, like it does in Communism.

Answer 6

Benevolent Consumerism.  If consumers refrained from spending money on "bad" and spent money on "good", capitalism would complete the formula.

However, it doesn't make sense to reward the hardworking for it's own sake.  Supporting the hardest working buggy whip maker would be counter-productive.  You'd just have a bunch of great, but useless, buggy whips.  Consumerism should reward the beneficial, and discourage the malfactors, regardless of the effort involved to get there.

Answer 7

That would be a hybrid of socialism and capitalism,and hasn't been invented yet.

Answer 8

Rational capitalism.

Or maybe a capitalism cutoff, whereby an individual having achieved a certain level of financial security is required to reinvest additional income that exceeds the cutoff into social programs and organizations.

The problem is not capitalism, it is the lack of rational oversite as a guide.

This is what results in the disparities.

Answer 9

What's so selfish about capitalism? The market or consumers decide the worth of things. If you invent something and want to sell it, people decide if they want to buy it. That's good. If  people don't buy, either fix what's wrong with the product or start over. A large part of capitalism is about supply and demand. Communism and socialism do not encourage or reward initiative or being inventive. Communism and socialism reward laziness. Everybody gets the same amount (usually just enough to get by) regardless of how much they contribute to society. If you work hard, someone who doesn't work at all will get as much food, clothing and shelter as you do. In a capitalist society you are rewarded for your hard work with more money to buy better clothes, better food and better housing. That incentive to better your situation fosters advances and improvements in all aspects of society; healthcare, medicine, construction, entertainment and gadgetry to name a few. Would you rather live in Russia/China or the U.S.?  

Answer 10

All economic methods that are not "capitalistic" are "collectivist." Do you see the base word in that? It is "collect."

Capitalism is the manufacture and distribution of wealth according to the owner of the means of producing that wealth. Any economic method that does not allow for laissez faire use of one's capital turns capital into something for the "collective" to make decisions about.

Capitalism is seen as unfair only when force is used to create monopolies, or simply to destroy competition. But that doesn't make capitalism bad; it makes force bad, and as Ayn Rand, the 20th century's great defender of capitalism on moral grounds, said many times, force is anti-thetical not only to capitalism, but to the concept of Man at his best.

Any collectivist methods are anti-thetical to Man at his best because all of them require force in order to make them work. Voluntary collectives have been tried all over the world, and only work for a short time because someone always gets cheated out of what truly is rightfully his or hers, and production goes down, along with community spirit.

Added:

BTW, I know someone who was a high-ranking official in Norway, a bureau chief. I went to school with him here in the States. Let me tell you that as a government employee, he thought socialism sucked. As a person he thought it sucked. He and I were best friends in school. Weird, huh?

Answer 11

Socialism?  

Answer 12

Communism is a system where the production means are owned by the government,  and profits are distributed according to need.  It can never work.  Production takes time and effort from somebody,  and not everybody is willing or able to work,  particularly when they do not get paid for the extra effort.  Also,  everybody wants more,  and believes to deserve it.  If distribution is by need,  things would end up in chaos,  where some people would prove their needs better than others,  and the dishonest would lie and exagerate to get as much as possible.  Commmunism cannot work in the long run.

A supposed alternative is socialism,  but that is an illusion.  Under the word,  there is the idea "We know communism cannot work,   but let us adapt this and that,  which will work for local conditions."  It cannot work in the long run for the same reasons as communism.

Politicians everywhere do not want to admit it,  but they love to dispense money without worrying about the long term consequences.  Ordinary citizens everywhere do not want to admit it,  but they all want the government to do more,  but such thing cost money,  and believe that the fair way to pay for it is to tax anybody but themselves.  Given these tendencies of human nature,  capitalism is the only viable alternative.  

Answer 13

Socialism is the only method you have.....other than fascism but I doubt that anyone would give it a chance after the 1940's...

Answer 14

Norway is a great example of a Socialist Democracy.