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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (12 children)

"We think that markets are by far the best way of organising most human affairs that involve scarce resources, because they align people’s incentives in ways that communicate where resources can be be used most efficiently, and give people reasons to come up with new ways of using existing resources."

If there exists another system that can do this more efficiently, it hasn't been discovered yet.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Well it took America proving democracy works and WW1 to topple a couple of monarchies.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Capitalism is imo so hard to remove because it's a system that evolved out of our base biological nature. It's a system very close to what's "natural" if we didn't have much education or philosophy.

We have the possibility to think about better systems and ways to inhibit our base nature, but that requires effort and a willingness to do that. I think capitalism is what comes out if you don't do this.

I notice in myself all the time the impulses that fuel capitalism. To acquire more resources. To better my status. To be selfish at the expense of others. I have to work actively against them to live my life in a way that I think is right, and I still fuck up often. Unless everyone understands this and does the same, this system will stay.

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