"Everyone is replaceable." Old-school socialism, is that you buddy?https://twitter.com/BigCougSteve/status/1206773498808389632 …
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I've been saying for a long time that "human beings are fungible" is a fundamental assumption of socialism, and usually ultimately results in valuing loyalty over generativity
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I mean, like, I do genuinely believe that individuals can (and with regularity, do) do things that matter and either couldn't or wouldn't be done without them. There's a lot more to do and learn and create and it doesn't happen via some natural, passive human churn
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*mass graves
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In industries where workers are interchangeable the socialist / union approach often is important to protect people. In the most innovative industries though it's completely wrong.
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Right time, right place, right person are all necessary Theres probably more than 1 person who could have done what Borlaug, or Jobs, etc did. I dont think that justifies calling them "replaceable"
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“‘Human beings are fungible’ is a fundamental assumption of socialism” Um...why?
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"human beings are fungible" seems like blank slatism
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“loyalty over generativity” This is an incisive explication for the strong positive correlation between socialism & corruption.
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Material conditions define what people will be capable of is the fundamental assumption of socialism. However awesome Jobs was, he had the right education, access to electronics to tinker with, and was surrounded by other awesome people.
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Just like it is not rare for scientists to discover things independently, it is likely that someone else had a similar idea, and if there were no Jobs, Apple would still be created in some form.
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