Once you start asking the question, "Why does capitalism work, REALLY?" you arrive at the idea of hierarchy.
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Capitalism is merely hierarchy made palatable to a post-Enlightenment public.
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Replying to @moritheil @crab_aesthetics
... No, it's Darwinian dynamics applied to command over resources.
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Replying to @Outsideness @crab_aesthetics
Darwinian dynamics apply to command over resources without capitalism, too. Just via conquest instead.
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Replying to @moritheil @crab_aesthetics
Capitalism ensures that only capital-competent societies can do conquest, so the distinction is dissolved.
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Replying to @Outsideness @crab_aesthetics
The distinction can be made looking back historically that capitalism is a mere subset of this behavior.
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Replying to @moritheil @crab_aesthetics
No real problem with that, so long as it's compatible with the notion of "this behavior" being subsumed ...
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... into a systematically higher order of performance.
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Replying to @Outsideness
but limitation is track record that suggests capitalism must be played as a cage match to the death with the rest of the globe
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