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The article is a piece of revolutionary rant. > Capitalism is unnatural, and selects for unnatural things. Wrong. Even plants have a conspicuous signaling eco
by sebastianconcpt 3mo ago
The article is a piece of revolutionary rant.
> Capitalism is unnatural, and selects for unnatural things.
Wrong. Even plants have a conspicuous signaling economy to get their way to selection.
- sassbadger 3mo agoEconomy/Markets != Capitalism
- flossly 3mo agoThere's a really insightful book on this topic (by pretty much the name you suggested): https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/MarketsNotCapitalism-web.pdf https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/1...
- dag100 3mo agoTFA means Capitalism in terms of "capitalism as it is today, particularly in the US". There are plenty of other ways of figuring out how to distribute resources.
- flossly 3mo agoSignalling = markets. Capitalism is allowing the winners of the markets to make the rules that everyone has to abide by, sidestepping "democracy" with anti-democratic "lobbyism" and creating a power hierarchy based on networth. The markets that allowed this are usually "free'ish" at best.