Nice non sequitur there. So collectivism is supposed to save us from having all our eggs in one basket?
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @_leftcat and
Right now capitalism has essentially homogenized humanity in a way unseen in any other epoch. Collective solutions will be different from place to place, just as customs varied widely before.
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @_leftcat and
Except they actually had a lot in common, and there was a lot less diversity within each of them. In any case, you're making an argument for patchwork.
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @RealEnverHoxha and
It's as though you're pointing to an ecosystem and claiming that it's homogenized because there are all sorts of interconnected relationships.
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @RealEnverHoxha and
Your solution is to have a number of tiny, simple ecosystems (or just individual species) that are (somehow) completely isolated from each other.
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @_leftcat and
I'm claiming its homogenized because the similarity in governing and economic structures has become much more similair than in the past. Japanese and British corporations are far more similair than japanese and British feudalism ever was
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @Djomo_Arigato and
I'm not advocating for any form of isolation at all, rather I'm advocating a collective solution and socialism because that is the only way to preserve the globalization we've achieved while diversifying economic and political systems. Patchworks are a utopian pipedream.
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Replying to @RealEnverHoxha @_leftcat and
So we're going to centrally plan our way to diversification? And capitalism is too homogeneous? Patchwork is a pipedream, but universal socialist planning is totally realistic, and indeed is going to deliver us all from the capitalist apocalypse. Genius.
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @RealEnverHoxha and
Has it occurred to you that perhaps the reason for the widespread success of capitalism, your claims to the contrary notwithstanding, is precisely it's generalizability?
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Replying to @Djomo_Arigato @RealEnverHoxha and
It goes beyond generalizability, frankly. A system in which stuff that works automatically accumulates resources while stuff that fails bleeds them is going to be backed by something close to cosmic law.
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The leftist response -- "No, no, stuff that fails needs MORE resources poured into it" -- is swimming completely against the current.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Djomo_Arigato and
It was the bankers who were most desperate for the bailouts after the crash, if you'll recall. Capitalism is no longer compatible with the hard budgets you have such a hard on for.
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