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That's what i'm arguing. It is an impersonal system with its own internal logic. There isn't some cabal of cigar-chomping elites who are puppeteering Capital in
by smhost 6y ago
That's what i'm arguing. It is an impersonal system with its own internal logic. There isn't some cabal of cigar-chomping elites who are puppeteering Capital in accordance with their greed. It's the other way around. It's their greed that's being puppeteered by the logic of Capital.
- LordDragonfang 6y agoI think personifying economic systems as having agency is no worse than person personifying chemical processes as being the result of the reagents "wanting" to be in a lower energy/higher entropy state. Not strictly correct, but useful for discussing among humans whose brains are hardcoded for pareidoliac personification. Also, I find the act of getting hung up over the phrasing of inanimate objects "wanting" to follow the laws of physics just derails the conversation for no good purpose.
- smhost 6y agoYou chose an example that's maybe the hardest possible subject to mystify, and still science educators find it important to make that distinction about teleology. The fact that human brains are "hardcoded" to overfit metaphors is the entire reason why it's important to point it out.