viciousness is directly correlated with zero-sumness of the underlying socioeconomic structure
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zero-sumness need not be restricted to dollars. there are zero-sum games in the social capital dynamics as well. only so many prestige positions to be had. career advancement normally comes at the expense of someone else's position. more entering than leaving the industry.
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universe inevitably converges on capitalism as outcome, all attempts at alternatives become "a capitalism, but with dumb ridiculous rituals" in the end.
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yes but not actually capitalism, more like competitive hierarchies are emergent phenomena and what we call "capitalism" is just a special case of this is industrial societies with high degrees of abstraction.
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good news, everybody! we've decided to suppress resource accumulation! control of the power structures that exist to suppress resource accumulation definitely did not just become a shiny new resource!
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