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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I think most people are, or try to be. But we’ve also been taught to think about counter-factuals and fed a diet of Star Trek et al. We know in our bones that there are other possible systems for meeting human needs and that we may have to try them (again) soon.
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People in the west have also grown up in conditions of great material safety and comfort, which they tend to take for granted as a fact about the world, rather than a legitimate achievement of the socioeconomic system whose faults are so apparent to them
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