> You seem to be defending the system as-is, as inevitable, and dismissing ambitions about the world as it could be as if they were the words of dreamers, and u

> You seem to be defending the system as-is, as inevitable, and dismissing ambitions about the world as it could be as if they were the words of dreamers, and ungrateful idealogues. That’s not how I read what they wrote. I read it as, “we got here because people voted with their wallets/feet/attention/time to get us here. We have inefficient government, etc. for the same reasons. The ‘problem’, if there is one, is that we have a lot of competing, sometimes contradictory, desires and no clear winner. It evolved this way.” I didn’t feel they were saying it’s inevitable or unchangeable, just that it happened because that’s how a bunch of different people reacted to the situation. If they had acted differently, we’d be somewhere else.