Ask HN: How could capitalism be improved?
4 by furrowedbrow | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Probably in a lot of ways, but to me some of the main issues seem to be (1) incentivizing short-term thinking; (2) locality mismatching, ie certain communities spending money on businesses whose owners live and spend elsewhere -- this is probably offset in many cases, I'm not sure; and (3) not accounting for externalized expenses, ie pollution and other drags on human/environmental well-being. I don't know what the solutions would look like for the first two, and attempts are being made at solving the third, but I'm curious if other people have thoughts on it that don't involve pivoting to ideological extremes. In case this does generate a discussion try to avoid sarcasm, straw-man, ad hominem, and moving goal posts...