3 ms·

"capitalism for ya" I'm reading this as: capitalism means willfully selling people whatever they want to buy, even if they didn't do their homework and buy bas

"capitalism for ya" I'm reading this as: capitalism means willfully selling people whatever they want to buy, even if they didn't do their homework and buy based on brand name or taste rather than value (nutritional content). But how does that contrast to consumer behavior in other systems like communism and dictatorships? Or....... I mean, to me ignorance is a first order "issue" independent of economic systems. If anything, the often lamented state of education today represents the pinnacle of achievement in human history in terms of the portion of the population that is literate and can effortlessly access info with their literacy and google skills. If they wanted.

goldenkey 5y ago
You can't really divorce economic incentives from governance. As is said, money makes the world go round. Behemoth sellers of shitty products don't want education. They want more uninformed consumers. It'd be nice if they were some platonic solid but instead they have a huge influence. Their large dicks swing even if they aren't very deliberate or malicious about it. It's just kinetics.