@Vitaliy_Kiselev I should have better contextualized. "Free trade" that works toward their elite advantage. I realize their are import/export taxes between countries.

Separately, I should have also added that they don't want free hands out to the masses, but they want their business subsidized by the government (oil subsidies, bank bailouts). Essentially, "Everything for me and my small group. Absolutely nothing for you, save for a few pennies so you can continue being enslaved."

While competition has been a way for our past existence, so has cooperation. I don't take a priori that large systems based on cooperation simply cannot work. I favor trying something new.

In the US, there are two types of elites. One elite, wants to maximize his position and power, but keep the system sustainable. Hence, Warren Buffet calls for a more progressive tax structure. He likely believes in some form of fairness.

The other type of elite wants to maximize his positions and ignores the world external to his immediate reality. This would be like the Koch brothers. If there's money that has not been acquired by his class and his allies, he will influence government using money, attempt to gather it. He is perfectly content in a world full of starvation, most of it caused by the knowing actions of his class (the suffering in the US at the minimum). But he doesn't want a fair competition. He only wants a competition that he knows he'll win. Hence, he buys elections, he attempts to use lobbyists to rewrite laws against the masses ( "Right to Work"), fights for deregulation, fights against any and all form of taxation. He wants to cut any and all redistribution of currency to the workers with the exception of police and military expenditure (i.e. he utilizes political power to revoke welfare, medicare, medicaid, public education). He disregards that if money fails to be redistributed, it accumulates at the top through many cycles of profits, unemployment goes up, and starvation eventually occurs, as food and raw materials don't simply go down, as they are determined at a global level. He apparently ignores that he may destabilize the system to the point that the masses revolt. Or, thinking that the guns are all on his side, he simply doesn't care. This is the worst kind, an absolute madman.

In the context of that, I don't think the often conflicting needs of elites want "smoothing." Because currencies differ across borders, they maximize their exploitation through these currency differences. They want to pay workers $2/day, and they can pull that off in the third world if the dollar is high.... More accurately, I believe they want a systems that maximizes their individual capability to exploit from their personal positions of capital (some are bankers, others are oil, more yet are defense - interests overlap, and occasionally conflict in unexpected manners). Please explain how "smoothing" occurs in the present society?

To reiterate, they want goods and services to travel (aka, free trade), yet simultaneously, they don't want things to smooth by allowing labor to flow freely across borders in response.

On the other hand, when we talk about media, I see a large degree of cultural and ideological "smoothing." The dominant culture sells its movies, its packaged brand, form of stories and advertisement. These become adopted by the 1st world bourgoeis of the 3rd world, and are thereby imposed on the 3rd world masses as the way things work, a priori, and the cultural past gets rewritten.

@VK I dont understand exactly your problematic. As far as I have understood, you say :

1/ elite wanting to "smooth out all real and natural things" (you disagree)

2/ then you say : "any system that goes against nature is unstable"

3/ then your option is some kind of starting from scratch for things to change.

You should consider that option 1 is for stability. Elite wants statu quo and putting all things equal to the low level (income, social protection, etc.). Your option (#3) is very unstable.

Core is always in monkeys nature and in the principles necessary for current systems survival.

@tetakpatak

Monetary system is just byproduct. Important one, but it is not absolute core.

Just small addition. To fight connections and knowledge advantage you need to understand how hierarchical systems work. As this is natural way how monkeys like to organise things.

Take any big problem and you'll find one or more of hierarchical systems that are interested in present situation :-)

Most reforms ideas and attempts are stupid. As they do not account two things - changes in available technology and hierarchical systems. If you want to advance society you need to use all available technologies and destroy and rebuild from scratch organization scructures.

So, I really hate all this bullshit about all created equal and having equal opportunity. And the sooner it'll be all dropped - the better.

The phrase "created equal" just affirmed that the U.S. wouldn't enshrine in law the privileges of a hereditary aristocracy; that special privilege would not be conferred at birth. Similarly, "equal opportunity" says nothing about uniformity -- just that the wealth of the parents should not be the means by which the child's social privilege and opportunity is determined.

Of course, none of these things are true in the U.S., but do you really want to argue that because denying inherited privilege goes against nature, we should accept a permanent hereditary aristocracy?

If everybody is "good", then there are no bad ones.... but there also no any great ones anymore.

And if convoy with many ships should move in the same speed, all have to adjust their speed to: the slowest one....

That's what I often think.