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Founder, @rootsofprogress. I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Part-time consultant to @OurWorldInData. Former tech founder

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    Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 5 Mar 2019

    There needs to be a capitalism appreciation course. Like art appreciation, but for the social system that delivered our modern standard of living

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      2. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 5 Mar 2019

        It would involve field trips to power plants and plastic factories and self-driving car companies

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      3. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 5 Mar 2019

        (@dacattac and I just decided this over dinner and he gets credit for these tweets)

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      4. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 5 Mar 2019

        Seriously we are planning a Capitalism Appreciation Society right now. Who's in?

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      5. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 6 Mar 2019

        Really, this is a big part of why I started @rootsofprogress

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      6. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        Replies on this thread have been interesting. Many people say that economics is all you need to appreciate capitalism. Not true! You also need history and morality.

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      7. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        Many people think that because capitalism is already dominant/successful, it doesn't need more appreciation than that. I disagree: it is exactly when things work that we need to make sure we appreciate them. Otherwise we risk biting the hand—or the social system—that feeds us.

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      8. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        Many say that a lot of the good things I might credit to “capitalism” should actually be credited to government—from power plants (which are now public utilities) to the Internet (invented by a DARPA program) …

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      9. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        … It's true that government has been involved in many innovations of recent decades and many benefits we enjoy today. But that doesn't mean government could have done these things without capitalism! And so it doesn't refute my original point that capitalism is underrated.

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      10. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        Some people seemed to think capitalism has only benefitted the few. This makes me sad. The vast majority of the world has benefitted from capitalism, including billions of Indians and Chinese who have lifted themselves out of poverty in the last ~40 years.

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      11. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        Of course, many blamed capitalism for any or all of the ills of the world, from pollution to slavery. No time to refute all these one by one; I'll just note that most of these things long predate capitalism, and that the fights against them are powered by the wealth it created.

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      12. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        I'm particularly confused by people who cited the Flint water crisis as a counterargument, since water in the US is a public utility. That one seems pretty squarely to blame on government officials… ?

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      13. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        (I'm similarly amused at the people who in any other context would oppose military spending, but suddenly become DARPA fans when arguing about private vs. public spending.)

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      14. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        But a lot of the confusion is probably around what no one addressed: what is “capitalism”? What does that term even refer to?

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      15. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        “Capitalism” is a funny term. It was coined by 19th-century socialists to name what they *opposed*, then adopted by its 20th-century defenders in place of “free markets” and “liberalism” (and a “liberal”, in the US today, is closer to a socialist than to a classical liberal).

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      16. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

        “Capitalism” names the essence of what socialists opposed (or claimed to oppose): the accumulation of capital and the control of that capital by a minority who profit from it. But this is *not* the essence of free markets or classical liberalism.

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      17. Jason Crawford‏ @jasoncrawford 9 Mar 2019

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        This thread got broken somehow, it continues here:https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1104539315382546434 …

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        What the advocates of “capitalism” promote is not fundamentally the private use of capital for production, but the values and institutions that underlie it: individual rights, free markets, limited government.
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