capitalism: come for the unprecedented engine of economic growth and innovation, stay for the absence of any barrier to unbridled rent-seeking
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progressivism: come for the noble commitment to uplifting the most oppressed, stay for the vicious infighting over limited resources based on how high an oppression score you can gin up for yourself
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exit/patchwork: come for the promise of being able to build a community without yahoos and sociopaths rolling in and shitting it up, stay for the screeching racism
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existentialism: come for the clear-eyed embrace of an individual agent's position in the universe, stay for the whiny scolding about who's existentially inauthentic compared to you, the hero of responsibility
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Objectivism: come for the penetrating Marxian economic determinism, stay for the nerd revenge fantasy
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technocracy: come for the promise of systems governed by those most skilled at their maintenance, stay for the systems that only work if you violently reduce human endeavor to things that fit on a spreadsheet
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green/sustainability: come for the responsible stewardship of the environment, stay for the romantic primitivism tarted up in morality drag
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Platonism: come for the striving toward the Good, stay for the smug satisfaction that you're the one who knows what's really going on around here and should be telling the NPCs what to do
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rationalism: come for the clearing away of falsehoods and trickery from thought and inquiry, stay for the hubristic superiority complex and febrile rationalization of one's cherished falsehoods and trickeries
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postrationalism: come for the embrace of the full spectrum of human thought and experience, stay for the zero effort shitposting
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this really satisfies like 99% of my needs though
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