I realize any attempt to discuss this founders instantly in the swamp of definitions. But I think of capitalism as kind of like an engine for economic activity. Saying that it can make things go fast doesn't imply that you have to be against seat belts, air bags, toll roads, etc
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It's a shame that a couple of the old line socialist economies weren't left over after 1989 to illustrate that purely as a method of organizing an economy and broadly raising the standard of living, socialism was unworkable. The USSR had the biggest microchips in the world
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I also find it interesting that all sorts of quality of life metrics in the west, like real wage growth, flatlined with the death of the old Communist bloc. It makes me wonder if the ideological battle didn't serve as a check on some of the worst aspects of monopoly capitalism
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But all that said, yeah, if you're tweeting from your iPhone about consumer capitalism being irredeemable and wrong, your beliefs about the world are incoherent. There's a reason it's an iPhone, and not a WePhone!
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The inability of the socialist bloc to make computers, even with a massive program of industrial espionage, had severe repercussions on both the Soviet military and central planning, and was one reason the whole system went belly up. It's a topic I would like to learn more about
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see this is where people who actually read Marx engage the next level countertrolling of "yes, capitalism is great at creating the material preconditions of communism." :^)
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See, that's a level I want to play at. But we're stuck in Twitter little league on this topic
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Except for the fact that a Chinese intelligence front is one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers
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does Lenovo even make smartphones?
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