Good breakdown of some sloppy thinking / phrasing in the tweet he's retweeting but there's another level. Initial tweet - "Capitalist conspiracy to push bad food b/c sick / fat is more profitable" Morlock's response - "This can be explained in terms of individual incentives" 1/xhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1222160248552726528 …
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The Marxist bit is the belief that coordination can happen to drive a social outcome where everyone involved works on behalf of a nebulous "capitalist class" when this is flatly impossible because that type of coordination can't happen - merchants don't cooperate like that 4/x
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Merchants constantly undercut each other and "defect" on each other by competing in a market but ideologues - priests, on the other hand, do cooperate like that. People driven by ideology can and do cooperate to push social changes. 5/6
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So USG pushes high carb / low fat specifically because it's bad for you because it also makes men less masculine. IOW, it's an example of the Stonetoss comic and not strictly a market outcome but the mistake is identifying it as being done for profit. 6/6pic.twitter.com/mHydA7bkG2
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