I'm reminded of this comment[1] by screenplay author David Simon: "Labour doesn't get to win all its arguments, capital doesn't get to. But it's in the tension

I'm reminded of this comment[1] by screenplay author David Simon: "Labour doesn't get to win all its arguments, capital doesn't get to. But it's in the tension, it's in the actual fight between the two, that capitalism actually becomes functional, that it becomes something that every stratum in society has a stake in, that they all share." Total devotion to pure ideology is always the wrong answer, because it implies hubris: that a problem has been totally solved, no further research is needed. People like Stallman, Gates, Rand, and Marx give us clear distillations that are really good as solving some problems, often before others even realize those problems even exist. As the above quote points out, these ideologies are not final, total solutions on their on. It is the conflict between them that bring the best results. From that conflict a good long-term planning pragmatist can try and pick out the parts that work and fix the parts that don't. Refactoring and bugfixing may not be fun, but they do keep the world working. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-cap...