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Capitalism is a system that sounds great on paper, but doesn't work in practice.

• dang 7y ago
  Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. Especially not generic ideological comments, which tend to lead to generic ideological flamewars, which we want to avoid because they're so predictable. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  • _bxg1 7y ago
    I felt it was substantive; lots of people worship the market blindly and this article is an excellent deep-dive into exactly what's wrong with that mentality. I was also drawing an analogy to the common refrain about communism, which is true in that case as well. The world's most prosperous societies know how to strike a balance.
    • dang 7y ago
      If you had posted that instead it would have been a fine comment!
    • carapace 7y ago
      Joke in Russia in the 90's: "Everything they told us about Communism was lies, but everything they told us about Capitalism was true."