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You're right. I should have said: "we're in the final stages of any semblance of socioeconomic mobility within a free market system". > “Late-stage capitalism”

by sp527 3y ago

You're right. I should have said: "we're in the final stages of any semblance of socioeconomic mobility within a free market system". > “Late-stage capitalism” wishcasting may be the most annoying current form of secular millenarian eschatology. This is a luxury belief one can adopt nearer to the apex of the pyramid and when not amongst the literally billions of people being crushed at the bottom. You should try putting in 60+ hours of blue collar labor across 3 different jobs just to end up paycheck to paycheck in the slummiest part of a major US city. And that would still be miles better than where most people are at in the rest of the world.

dragonwriter 3y ago
> You're right. I should have said: "we're in the final stages of any semblance of socioeconomic mobility within a free market system". "Free-market system" isn't a thing that actually exists in the real world, but even leaving that aside, no, that's not defensible, either. > > “Late-stage capitalism” wishcasting may be the most annoying current form of secular millenarian eschatology. > This is a luxury belief one can adopt nearer to the apex of the pyramid and when not amongst the literally billions of people being crushed at the bottom. It's exactly the opposite: eschatological wishcasting doesn't contribute to solving problems; it is a luxury belief one can adopt nearer to the apex of the pyramid, etc., etc., without any cost, and without any motivation to do something because the problem will be imminently fixed by the teleological design of the universe. > You should try putting in 60+ hours of blue collar labor across 3 different jobs just to end up paycheck to paycheck in the slummiest part of a major US city. And that would still be miles better than where most people are at in the rest of the world. "Lots of people live in crappy conditions" doesn't support either your original or revised description, however true it certainly is, and however much of an urgent problem it is to address.

by sp527 3y ago

dragonwriter 3y ago

> You're right. I should have said: "we're in the final stages of any semblance of socioeconomic mobility within a free market system". "Free-market system" isn't a thing that actually exists in the real world, but even leaving that aside, no, that's not defensible, either. > > “Late-stage capitalism” wishcasting may be the most annoying current form of secular millenarian eschatology. > This is a luxury belief one can adopt nearer to the apex of the pyramid and when not amongst the literally billions of people being crushed at the bottom. It's exactly the opposite: eschatological wishcasting doesn't contribute to solving problems; it is a luxury belief one can adopt nearer to the apex of the pyramid, etc., etc., without any cost, and without any motivation to do something because the problem will be imminently fixed by the teleological design of the universe. > You should try putting in 60+ hours of blue collar labor across 3 different jobs just to end up paycheck to paycheck in the slummiest part of a major US city. And that would still be miles better than where most people are at in the rest of the world. "Lots of people live in crappy conditions" doesn't support either your original or revised description, however true it certainly is, and however much of an urgent problem it is to address.