Capitalism more fundamentally sculpts an epistemology of truthlessness than any other way of life. It's a form of pseudo-deontology that imagines the NAP as the only moral law, and in doing so makes circumstantially profitable errors of character into reified subjective truths.
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A fatal flaw in popular capitalism is, it equates profitability over an arbitrary, finite time interval with responsibility. This inevitably leads to irresponsibility.
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Mencius said: “Why must you speak of profit? What I have for you is humaneness and fairness, and that's all. If you say ‘how can I profit my kingdom?’ your ministers will ask, ‘how can we profit our clans?’ The elites and the commoners will ask: ‘How can we profit ourselves?’
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