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> I imagined "a hacker", an individualist person You _cannot_ build a society on individualism. We have shared needs that only scale with our shared contributi

> I imagined "a hacker", an individualist person You _cannot_ build a society on individualism. We have shared needs that only scale with our shared contribution. We also have _plenty_. We have the resources to ensure the health and well-being of every human being on the planet. We need capitalism to innovate and respond with agility to market forces (when THERE'S ACTUALLY A FREE AND TRANSPARENT MARKET), but we need socialism to check their power, as a corporation is wont to become singular, which, as you've stated, a singular, centralized power is no good either.

pdonis 9y ago
> You _cannot_ build a society on individualism. We have shared needs that only scale with our shared contribution. And the only way to scale that shared contribution without leading to all the problems with centralization that you refer to is to do it based on interactions between individuals--i.e., individualism. So you _have_ to build a society on individualism: nothing else works. > We have the resources to ensure the health and well-being of every human being on the planet. Who is this "we"? There is no single "we" that has all the resources. Nor should there be; that would be centralized power.