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Transcending   “Better”   Capitalism; More Succinct than   “Utopian”   Socialism. Photo by   Intricate Explorer   on   Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . Each American as a different view of what capitalism and socialism mean, or what they expect from these two theories of economics, and their political underpinnings. Some portion of Americans dislike both, but most have stronger negative or positive feelings about one or the other.   “Better” capitalism,   for many Americans, may just mean more socialism plugged into capitalism, or those focused on socialism as the path forward may dislike my use of the term utopia. Yet that is a big problem with both capitalism and socialism; Americans are all over the map on how they perceive each theory because our understanding of both is varied, and is   anchored   at several levels. Plus each can be multilayered with myth, and misinformation, encouraged or directed by frien...

Making the case for person to person, community to community, democracy with advanced guardrails (an   ideals   algorithm ), and more strategically and comprehensively involving a much larger percentage of Americans. Photo by   Unseen Histories   on   Unsplash . . Essay originally published on Medium . . We must unlearn the theories that are distrustful of, or antagonistic towards,   direct democracy , so we are able to survive and thrive, and continue   our experiment   at an unassailable   social distance   from autocracy, aristocracy, plutocracy, and dictatorship. That unlearning will also help us shed the rhetorical dilemma, and institutional perception, and indoctrination, of socialism and capitalism that causes so many rifts in our politics. There is an advanced form of direct democracy that does not require a separate economic theory. Citizens and workers decide how our economics will be arranged and our civic interactions will be...