Strictly looking at outcomes, it seems like capitalism excels at moving resources from dormant sectors to emerging sectors (which is good), but fails horribly at ensuring that the resources committed to dormant sectors don't fall below reasonable levels...
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
So like the first 20 years of anything in capitalism goes pretty well, and then the next 20 goes very poorly, and then the government has to come and deal with it.
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
It may be going in circles but, if indeed that becomes a problem, won't the same mechanism enable someone else to fix it once again, but this time considering a world that is now decades different?
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Replying to @DiogoSnows @cmuratori
It could, if power and capital hadn't accumulated to such an extreme degree in so few hands and the state hadn't become a dysfunctional, calcified tool of a tiny minority.
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Replying to @JonasKyratzes @cmuratori
But isn't that anti capitalistic? Genuine question
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Replying to @DiogoSnows @cmuratori
Capitalism produces the conditions for its own abolition - either as transition to socialism, or return to feudalism. (Or its preservation as authoritarian state capitalism a la China, I suppose.)
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Replying to @JonasKyratzes @DiogoSnows
That's true of all systems currently known, though. If we had one that didn't produce the conditions for its own demise, that system would be eternal. In that sense, there _is_ an eternal system, which is the system of arising and collapsing sub-systems :)
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
Isn’t that equivalent to the first statement of problems being solved just to be messed up again? Maybe you’re right, that’s all we can ever hope for in general, that the only eternal systems is a loop of continuous construction and destruction? And that may not be a bad thing1/2
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Replying to @DiogoSnows @JonasKyratzes
Well, despite what humans think in their egocentric vision of the world, there's no "bad thing" in the cosmic sense. The universe unfolds exactly as its rules intend, as always. But there can definitely be "bad things" from the standpoint of what humans might want for themselves.
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
Here I’m definitely taking a humanistic perspective
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Yes, of course :) I, on the other hand, am still waiting for the mothership to return so I can go back to my home planet where the rest of my people live.
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Replying to @cmuratori @JonasKyratzes
I’m losing hope mine will ever arrive, I lost the communication device as a child… can’t really remember what happened
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