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Sure can debate the minor points I guess but the overarching theme needs to be more capitalism (private ownership of things, production, etc), more productivity
by nemo44x 3y ago
Sure can debate the minor points I guess but the overarching theme needs to be more capitalism (private ownership of things, production, etc), more productivity (automate more, more and better jobs, outsource), and more energy (extract more, better green solutions that are actually competitive and not forced on people). We should continue to do more of what has proven to pull more and more people out of poverty and to even redefine what it means to be poor compared to many years ago.
The goal should be to make today's relatively poor comparatively rich to the poor of generations past.
- hackerlight 3y agoMaybe. Some of what you're advocating for sounds more in the category of bad capitalism. The typical libertarian denial of the existence of second order effects and negative externalities. It's hard to tell whether "more private property" is really a euphemism for more inequality or if "better green solutions" is really a euphemism for cancelling renewable and accelerating climate change. Which would be a recipe for social unrest and millions of climate refugees fleeing the equator leading to authoritarianism and lower prosperity. That's bad. There are some interpretations of your words that I'd agree with, though.