Kinda curious how “capitalism” as an ideal only exists in the heads of people opposed to it. The term points to a series of historic pseudo-equilibrium conditions that are unified only by being paths of least coordination resistance through their eras.
Yes, this is our disagreement. Capitalism would continue to exist if all ideologues trying to speak for or against it disappeared in a way that’s not true of any true ideology.
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That is what capitalism wants you to believe -- that it is as natural and inevitable and ultimate as the laws of physics. There is an ideological industry devoted to promoting this view, and an emerging movement in the streets devoted to refuting it. Winner TBD.
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I don’t think I’m buying into that, while that industry does exist as you say. This is my Occam’s razor fit to the history of commerce as I understand it from reading history. But I don’t think it’s “necessary” in an argument-by-nature sense, or teleologically inevitable.
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