I feel like people dunk on the "you're criticizing capitalism from your iphone" callout without acknowledging its fundamental correctness. Innovation and the production of consumer goods are two things that capitalism really is better at, whatever your political stancehttps://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1255758942833172490 …
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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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The period 1917-1989 across half the world that I reference throughout this thread
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Yeah, all I want are seat belts, air bags, traction control , abs, all wheel drive , and intensive safety engineering in my Lamborghini. Maybe they slow it down a bit, but it’s fast enough.
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