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Do you consider the current state of things healthy? By what metric?

• BurningFrog 2y ago
  It produces steady progress on most any important metric. Compared with the Soviet system, that makes it vastly superior. Compared to an imagined perfect system, it has many flaws, but that's how the real world is.
  • wesselbindt 2y ago
    > It produces steady progress on most any important metric Some metrics I care about are income equality, homelessness, school shootings, level of education. What are the metrics you care about that you see improving? > Compared with the Soviet system, that makes it vastly superior. I'm sure it's also superior to the feudal system and hunter-gatherer systems. The Soviet system has been gone for three decades, I don't see why we would care to compare the current system to the effects of a system operating in a vastly different economic and political reality, more than 30 years ago. > Compared to an imagined perfect system, it has many flaws, but that's how the real world is. Well sure, that's a truism. That doesn't preclude the existence of realistic more effective or healthy systems.
    • BurningFrog 2y ago
      Sure. But I was commenting on this: > The corporate world generally resembles Soviet culture a lot to me.
      • wesselbindt 2y ago
        Alrighty. I'm still really keen to find out what metrics you personally care about.