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I have a permanent solution to banking crises:
Ban capitalism globally.
It's foolproof. It will stop any more banks from having any sort of crisis.
Well yeah, we'll all suffer under communism where you'll get shot for disagreeing, but who cares about those details, right?
At least we can say that we checkmated capitalism
The other comment is definitely far too simplicistic in its proposition, but I'll point out that Communism doesn't have to be authoritarian. That's just the result of violent revolution, necessarily carried out by people so convinced that their ideology is right that they'll use violence to assert it. Revolution requires unity, so dissidents present a real risk to a nascent movement.
Combine those two and you have a recipe for authoritarian suppression of all who disagree with the dominant ideology, or the dominant leader figure supposedly best representing it. What they might initially see as a necessary step to a better world then becomes a feedback loop: Anyone who argues that they're past the point where this policy is still necessary and justified is a dissident by definition.
Conversely, authoritarian policy also doesn't require communism. It's perfectly possible to have a non-communist ideology in power that suppresses all opposition. The problem isn't communism, it's violence: once started, it's hard to reign in again and keep on the right track.
Yeah but...
Anytime I have discussions about communism it's always sort of the same thing...
Well yeah, sure, but then can't we say the same about capitalism?
For my part, I think capitalism is the way, but different from what we do now. To clarify, I think we both want the same destination, just different routes.
I want capitalism with a number of hard restrictions and restraint. At its core, capitalism is about freedom to trade. Unbound, this will lead to where we are now with monopolies and abuse coming out of the whazoo. Yet, capitalism's power is that it can generate economic prosperity better than any other system.
So how about this?
We go for capitalism but:
companies cannot grow bigger than (pulling numbers out of butt) say 1000 employees. You reach that, you can't hire anymore.
Companies cannot have a worth over a billion dollars. Any worth over that goes straight to taxes until that limit is reached
Any person cannot have a net worth of over 10 million dollars. Anything over that goes 100% to taxes
A billion dollar company therefore must have at least 100 shareholders
With these rules ( and a few more) you'll get rid of the too big to fail companies, you get rid of all the monopolies and powerful companies and powerful people. You get not one trillion dollar company, you get a million million dollar companies instead that compete with eachother
Meanwhile Governments get enormous tax revenues which they can then spend on a ginormous socialist network. Free healthcare (including mental, Dental, eyes, everything), free education for all, free minimal food, free housing, free public transport, hell we could even do universal income.
This is the other thing that ma y people kinda overlook: you need your system to generate enough "wealth" for everyone to be able to live and enjoy living. You need enough food, you need enough entertainment. The USSR, for example, wasn't known for any of these things
I've heard it phrased as the Bolsheviks never really leaving behind their «underground party» phase.