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> for the post-capitalist world There needs to be a word that means "I almost thought what you were proposing sounded reasonable, until you said that last thin
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
> for the post-capitalist world
There needs to be a word that means "I almost thought what you were proposing sounded reasonable, until you said that last thing, and now I've lost all confidence."
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agoit's a dogwhistle for likeminded folx
- uoaei 4y agoCapitalism is not just "the existence of money and markets". You can still have money and markets without capitalism.
- dmonitor 4y agoCapitalism is when businesses do things I don't like, and the more they do those things the more capitalist it is.
- Mikeb85 4y ago> You can still have money and markets without capitalism Money yes markets ish. A pillar of capitalism is the private ownership of capital, without private ownership many markets no longer exist (talking the economic definition of 'market').
- uoaei 4y ago"Some markets become obsolete when you remove capitalism" is not the same as "markets are only a thing under capitalism". The real estate market would probably look much different and may even dissolve entirely if you forbid private ownership of real estate capital. I don't think this is a groundbreaking insight, I'm just clarifying for those who are careless about their use of words.
- tkk23 4y agoCapitalism can also mean that politics shouldn't intervene when monopolies dominate markets. Then markets may also disappear in capitalism.
- uoaei 4y agoThat's not what capitalism means. That's corporatism, if anything, assuming (as a sensible default) that corporations are the ones holding monopolies.
- throw10920 4y agoThis is technically true in the abstract, but the people who use phrases like "post-capitalist" usually have a slightly different meaning in mind than what you described.
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- pvg 4y agoDon't know if there is such a word but there's definitely an HN guideline about not-writing shallow reaction comments about such triggers.