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Also because the original title is a smug pun on “the wealth of nations”, Adam Smith’s essay that (neo)liberists trump around like Mao’s Red Book... Smith argue

by eecc 8y ago

Also because the original title is a smug pun on “the wealth of nations”, Adam Smith’s essay that (neo)liberists trump around like Mao’s Red Book... Smith argued that letting capitalism loose would benefit us all - the wealth in his title - yet there seems to be quite a bit of it missing ;)

ralusek 8y ago
Are you suggesting that capitalism has not benefitted us all?
- dang 8y ago
  Please don't do generic ideological arguments on HN. There's nothing new in them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: also, could you stop posting unsubstantive comments generally?
- ionised 8y ago
  Yes.