What’s your best 1-tweet mic-drop critique of western-style capitalism?
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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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Not sure that's true. What alternative do you have in mind to compare it with?
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That's why my response to 1-tweet critique was going to be - "Stop sleeping with politicians; Consumers are all not that stupid"
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I have this same feeling about boardgames. I appreciate them generally, but it seems to me they teach people to appreciate the advantages of being maximally selfish, self-dealing and foiling the plans of others. I can't get past how this is evil, but nobody but me seems to see it
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That‘s pretty similar to what I meant twitter.com/olaf_alex/stat except I would stress more the self-referential problem: the same behaviors that can work on an object level if the rules are good, prevent good rules from being adopted at the meta level. (h/t Daniel Schmachtenberger)
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By building upon self-interested actions of individuals, capitalism reinforces exactly those manipulative, anti-competitive and rent-seeking tendencies that prevent + destroy the necessary institutional and normative conditions which could ensure the system‘s long-term survival.
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Recent tweet touching on the (widespread) conflation of the term “capitalism” with *crony* capitalism.
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