On that note: There's something I might be willing to discuss in detail, time and other commitments/projects permitting.
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Many of my mutuals are explicitly anti-capitalist and advocate for communism and/or socialism. Despite what you may have heard, as an +
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economist, I'm not necessarily opposed to these ideals (though there are empirically manifist problems with past implementations). I *have*
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stated that "capitalism" is, in and of itself, a meaningless term in my field, as far as actual theory etc. goes.
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NB: you may have heard/read PhD economists writing opinion pieces in favor of capitalism per se in their capacity as pundits. It's still +
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not a term that means much of anything in the field.
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With that said: when you criticize capitalism per se, what, precisely, do you have in mind?
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Since I've gotten a couple of responses that indicate it didn't read how I intended, let me rephrase it:
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When you discuss capitalism, what, precisely, do you mean *by* "capitalism"? What is the basic mechanism of the system?
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@asymbina then one person i was talking to and one person i was reading were clearly using "post-mercantilist philosophy of wealth creation"
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