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I was nodding to your post for a short period, then you just had to throw in the usual anti-capitalism zeitgeist rant. Reframe your context, pretend you're in
by munksbeer 2mo ago
I was nodding to your post for a short period, then you just had to throw in the usual anti-capitalism zeitgeist rant.
Reframe your context, pretend you're in a communist society, and you could be making the exact same point about speaking up against the grain being bad for you. It feels as though people are brainwashed by anti-capitalism sentiment at the moment, unable to see outside of that context.
- atomicnumber3 2mo agoI don't want communism, I want a functioning free market with socialist safety net policies and for strong anti-trust/monopoly regulations. Mega corporations pervert free markets and democracy, and we have a huge number of mega corporations At this point.
- munksbeer 2mo agoThat's not the point of my response. It is tiresome, and detracts from meaningful discourse to have the same tired anti-capitalism meme tacked onto everything. It didn't even make sense in the post I was responding to - which is entirely my point.
- atomicnumber3 2mo agoIt's relevant because the feedback mechanism for countering all of this is "theoretically, the firm gets outcompeted by other actors who are not doing the bad things." I'm pointing out that, due to how strongly capitalism rewards cash flow and previously accumulated capital, that feedback/correcting mechanism is often _extremely slow_. That feels relevant to me.