>>12149649>This is what our mode of production incentivices. Under another mode we wouldn't have this.Yet nobody has ever been able to experimentally verify the stability of other modes on the production side.
The system in effect in China, even under Mao, was officially capitalism, as was that in the USSR under Stalin, hence the "not real communism" meme.
What has been proven to exist, and has been proven to regulate excess consumption, are alternative modes of consumption.
Consumerism is profitable because demand side limiters have been deconstructed, largely by the same people claiming to oppose "capitalism".
Most of what we call "social conservatism is really just anti consumerism.
Traditional family structures exist to limit demand, via high trust sharing, and via inheritance. Deconstructing them means more consumption.
Redistribution takes from savers (low consumption) and gives to spenders (high consumption) increasing consumption.
Casual sex creates boundless competition, tying reproduction to competitive consumption.
Etc, etc.
Regulating production has only ever turned capitalism into state capitalism = a later stage version of the same mode of production.
Regulating demand is what meaningfully changes the economic landscape, and is how all societies independently evolved to deal with scarcity.
The entire reason societies historically evolved family structures, borders, sexual taboos, property laws, etc during times of scarcity is because these limit consumption.
