the “growing a bigger pie” argument for capitalism doesn’t work for hooman happiness because hooman happiness is relative, not absolute. most hoomans live very luxurious lives compared to cats but all they do is bitch and whine
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a capitalist system would quickly fall apart if EVERYONE was a manager. who would row the boat??? the manager class is always a minority that is rewarded disproportionately. thus persistent hooman unhappiness.
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no matter how rich every country gets, even assuming climate change and limited resources problem is solved, the you-can’t-have-9-managers-for-each-rower problem still persists. a hierarchy of value is intrinsically a logN structure that produces a minority of elites at the top
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perhaps once we create robot ais the problem is solved. everyone can be a manager. there is sth to this argument. in tech computer managers can have equal or higher rank than people managers
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however computer hoomans don’t seem to be the most mentally sane to me. i suspect there is a dominance/submission drive to management relationships needed for hooman relationships to feel whole. their brains r just broken that way. they gots the DOGGO-19 virus
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