I’m fundamentally sympathetic to capitalism but if I had to make a critique, it would be: it institutionalizes an unrealistically cynical view of human nature, rendering idealism unreasonably ineffective and self-defeating
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Killing the earth, and thus killing humanity.
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provide “value”, extract “wealth” and die
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classical market theory is superb for physical goods and services, but absolutely terrible for information-based economies "intellectual property" needs to go, or face some serious core refactoring; copyright/patent length should match speed of cultural information transfer
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basically we need to make bunnie huang our chief trade representative, and peter navarro should get a nice relaxing job scrubbing toilets somewhere or somethinghttps://youtu.be/hniOumjymI8
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capitalism died in its sleep in the early 70s and what we have instead is a bunch of third-generation professional managers doing a drag show in its skin
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(that is not to say that there aren't still capitalists but they are more like the charismatic megafauna of the ecosystem)
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"The wealth that workers created cannot be purchased by their wages." Kropotkin
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They did though
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