This is going to get me screamed at by some people, but I don’t think it should be controversial. If you’re on the left, you probably believe in one way or another that capitalism decimates moral agency for the weak and the obfuscates it for the powerful.
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Either way you believe that the evil is inherent in the system and not the individual, and so it’s of limited use (and maybe counterproductive) to discipline individual behavior. The system has to change, because no one can be good in it.
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Pete saw all of these connections in the economy. He is many things but he is not dumb. His supporters always make the argument in one form or another that he didn’t have a choice in these matters in McKinsey.
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Let’s assume again that Pete was a bright young guy who judged it all to be worth it so he could learn how the world worked. What did he conclude after his useful naïveté was washed away by his grand tour of capitalism? He concluded two things.
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First, he concluded he could not affect the change he wanted to affect in the world at McKinsey. What did he conclude about how he wanted to change the world?
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He concluded that the system worked. After seeing up close a health insurance business that kicked sick people off of coverage not out of malice but because the system demanded it, he decided he wanted to be president and that he would do nothing about it.
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After serving as a 24 year old adviser to CEOs from Harvard, after the economy crashed because of the hubris of that class of people, he concluded that he wanted to be in charge of the system and sneer at anyone who thought that he should do more.
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That to me is what’s sick about him. Buttigieg knows how bad it is, and he wants to be in charge, and he wants to have the power to do something about the fact that hospital bills are made up numbers to extort people for as much as they can pay, and he wants to do nothing.
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Every republican finance shithead also knows this stuff, but they have the redeeming quality that they are open in their belief that a better world is not possible so they may as well just get rich.
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Buttigieg, he probably could just get rich. But he wants to call on some drone strikes. He wants to address a country of people where half of us would be ruined by a minor health emergency and tell us politely to suck it up, but also to couch it in the language of progress.
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I cannot fathom that kind of twisted view of the world. To know how things really work, and to want power, and to tell everyone politely to eat shit while demanding to be worshipped as an icon of progress for balancing the budget while the oceans boil.
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Maybe Buttigieg was naive when he worked at McKinsey. He isn’t now. Maybe he didn’t have agency as a consultant there. He will as President. But he as hell seems to have an ideological commitment to not doing any better than he was naive enough to let them force him to.
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