Seriously? You think Ayn Rand = capitalism? AynRandism is a marginal religion aspiring to take over capitalism. It may have a few big believers like Thiel or Koch, but 90% of revealed capitalists have never heard of her, while 100% of Christians for eg have heard of the Bible.
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This is like claiming Ayn Rand is to capitalism as Jesus or Martin Luther are to Christianity or Marx, Lenin, or Mao to communism. It simply isn’t true. There is an impedance mismatch between the scale, scope and contents of the thing being pointed to by the term versus Randism
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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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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.

