Unemployment

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Of course in a rational society when millions are out of work, while other millions suffer from burnout, backache or sleep-shortage due to overlong working time, we would redistribute work in a way that allows us to produce the same amount of goods and services with a 20hour-week for everyone.

But since the capitalist economy's goal is not the satisfaction of needs, but the production of abstract wealth, this is impossible.

I see someone needs to read up on The Mythical Man-Month.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well...it depends on how you define law of nature.

Not really. I think it's fairly obvious that the distribution of different species of squirrel in North Wales is not determined by market forces.

Given than human demand for red squirrels is causing money to be spent to eradicate the introduced gray squirrel, I'd say that even that is not immune to market forces.  Indeed, bounties have been paid for the tails of the pest in the past, tho that was abandoned as not providing sufficient control for the level of bounties that was being paid.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What would you suggest cutting?

He already suggested cutting 'waste' for which the definition in the skeptic's dictionary should probably be:

• waste n.
  1. Any government activity that does not meet the approval of whoever is currently talking about waste.  Often mentioned in conjunction with efficient.
  We need to get rid of government waste and save taxpayer money by making government efficient.
  2. When used by a politician a government activity which is purposely left undefined so each voter can believe the politician means what the voter considers to be waste (def. 1) instead of an essential government program.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

What, do you suppose hunter-gatherer societies were capitalist?

Yes.  The archaeological record indicates that one of the significant differences between the Neanderthals and our Cro-Magnon ancestors is that Neaderthals made do with what they could gather themselves from their immediate surroundings while Cro-Magnon man engaged in long distance trade well before the start of agriculture.