half-baked funny thought: unbridled capitalism actually in a way forces society at large to confront various things it might have otherwise preferred to keep in the collective shadow forever, because people can make so much money off of fulfilling shadow desires
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there are a lot of non-monetary reasons to do "fucked up" things, they're just taken at a more safe speed tho
social power, attention, admiration, etc. is never going anywhere
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when you say "unbridled capitalism" are you talking about what's going on in [current year]? or a more theoretical model?
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maybe more than the economic system, something like "society cultures where everything is permitted unless explicitly banned vs societies where everything is banned unless explicitly permitted"
although I guess either could have high openness for deciding on those banned things
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Every socialist solution has an equal and opposite pure capitalist solution that will be faster at the expense of completely offending everyone’s sensibilities.
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Legalize/normalize these shadow desires & let the market price out the mafia (non-exploitative stuff anyway)
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Some (most?) of those shadow desires ought to be suppressed, for the sake of both individual and collective well-being / human flourishing.
Arguments for the liberation of shadow desires are usually articulated by those who stand to profit from them
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And then making money off the shadow tends to disincentivize its integration.
Any half-baked ideas for an economic system to reintegrate what we’ve found out about our baser natures here?
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Like the Soviet citizens shadow desires for replacement windscreen wipers or Bath plugs?