Originally Posted by vulpes
Actually capitalism thrives on competing interests. In a classless society where everyone the world over has equal free access to all goods and services and an equal voice and vote in their administration, civil conflicts, whether regional or global, would be minimal. All that would be needed to resolve disagreements and distributional disputes would be an ideal political process to settle them: true democracy. There would be no powerful, privileged class to violently struggle against just to get what is needed for a satisfying and fulfilling life. For the first time in human history the entire population of the Earth would be one people working in concert to meet the challenges that are common to us all. For the first time in our history our commonality would unite all of us, and our differences, illusory as they are, would truly enrich us rather than divide us.
Wow, talk about pipe dream. True Democracy? Dude, true democracy is just mob rule, and mobs rarely end well.
Have you ever taken a look at the people who you see every day? The ones who feel voting in American Idol or who won the latest ball game is more important than health care or economics or foreign policy or a myriad of other real issues?
Additionally why would any one manage or run any of the processes needed to make your system work if they don't get anything extra out of it? And if they do, then suddenly you have a class structure again.
Why even bother discussing Utopian ideas that have 0 chance of ever occurring? Just do what you can to make the current world better.