Macron will be a Trudeau style neoliberal, and if you think that's good, you haven't been paying attention.http://www.ianwelsh.net/macron-wins-in-france/ …
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Replying to @iwelsh
Most people seem to be more afraid of returning to a nationalist feudalism than of sticking with globalist capitalism for now.
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Replying to @Plinz
not the young ones. It's inevitable, since they've decided to not make global "capitalism" work for young people.
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Replying to @iwelsh
global capitalism is not working very well for most people; it is just that the known and tested alternatives are worse
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Replying to @Plinz
40 years from now, Capitalism will be seen as a great criminal enterprise than even Communism.
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Both could work but are badly broken, thanks largely to the common thread of human greed.
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Replying to @PEIangelis1 @iwelsh
I am unconvinced that basic human motivation should be moralized, our nature is nature. We have to build around that.
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As cliche as it may sound I think greed is the root of all evil, and prohibits our growth substantially.
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Replying to @PEIangelis1 @iwelsh
So we have to build systems in which it does not manifest.
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Isn't that in effect, moralizing motivation? :)
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I think that people are basically monkeys that happen to be caught up in stories. Telling better stories does not fix the underlying problem
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