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by jahaja 7y ago
Yup, I agree. I just can't really see how it's possible to incentivize this at all. To _not_ pursue regulatory capture seem to require an altruistic mindset, which I'm not naive enough to expect from businesses. In Sweden we
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by jahaja 7y ago
> You separate democratic procedure from capital Uhm, that's very easy to say, but how is that even possible? Even here in Scandinavia, where money interests isn't as blatantly involved in politics as in the US, most of the med
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by jahaja 7y ago
> Regulatory capture is indeed a major underlying cause of a lot of the issues How is it even possible to isolate capitalism from regulatory capture? Capital accumulation inherently creates power and influence, so regulatory capture is s
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by jahaja 7y ago
Both these are tabloids and uses "considering" & "is looking at" just below the contradictory headlines. I'm Swedish and are browsing Swedish websites. Including the Public Service svt.se.
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by jahaja 7y ago
It's very hard to compare the US with Sweden. In Sweden people are able to stay at home without losing much income due to a strong welfare state - which has also been made event stronger due to the virus. In the I assume that a lot of
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by jahaja 7y ago
Uhm, no? I can't find anything in Swedish newspapers about harsher measures.
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Neither is it some mystic natural law?
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Surely the risk motive for profit includes what's happening now?
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by jahaja 7y ago
By that logic feudalism has value?
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by jahaja 7y ago
This. So much. People are behaving like it's an essential utility for the broader public, rather than a luxury for the (upper) middle-class. Usually sounds very similar with Uber and other low-paying services.
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You guess that you can't pump and dump a company into an IPO with only double-digit number of employees.
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Well, as a Swede I'm aware of a middle-ground social democracy. But that's unrelated to what I asked about. It wasn't capitalism that made Scandinavia social-democratic. It was through hard fought labour struggles and through
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by jahaja 7y ago
What exactly is the historical basis that it's unintended? The origins of capitalism are hardly a display of democratic prowess.
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by jahaja 7y ago
Thanks for a well-thought-out answer. I do reckognise that there's indeed a snowball-effect. But perhaps the shadow that's being blocked, may be blocked for a reason. I'm not a moderator of any sort, so I know that my opinion
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by jahaja 7y ago
Fair enough. I disagree however that the health of a community will always fall within normal courtesy bounds.
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by jahaja 7y ago
Surely some form of social shunning is required for a healthy community? There's limits.
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Yeah, he promoted some sort of Council communism IIRC.
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You know that Bertrand Russell was a socialist/communist right?
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Yes, seriously. You're willing to sacrifice a million people to keep your house of cards economy going instead of fixing the root cause. To add insult to injury you want to shrink the state, thus collective resources, even more and cal
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by jahaja 7y ago
Why do you assume a command economy?
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The relevant incentives are there because of capitalism. Just as the incentives to cover things up or shift blame were there in the USSR during Chernobyl.
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Uber Asks US Government to Give Its Workers Health Insurance(vice.com)
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by jahaja 7y ago
> It's better to reserve our spending for when we need it than to spend indiscriminately when we don't. To save money in a large pile is not a proactive thing to do. It's reactive. The proactive thing is to have a far reac
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by jahaja 7y ago
It seems like there's two things where money is never an issue; war and the preservation of the status quo. This should be remembered when progressive reforms are rejected.
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by jahaja 7y ago
Thanks. I would like to clarify though that although I do see myself as a socialist, I'm not at all a bolshevik (or any variety of Marxist-Leninism). Because I agree with you on the inevitable degeneration into authoritarianism and&#x2
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This lacks nuance. If we insist on enforcing private property, thus creating scarcity for most, the whole question becomes much more complex. Because now the main reason I need the right to someones else's produce is because private pr
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by jahaja 7y ago
A system should be judged by the outcomes of the incentives it promotes. Too many people seem to think that these incentives are somehow disconnected from capitalism. For example, capitalist incentives do not encourage corporations and busi
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by jahaja 7y ago
To be unattractive to people that feels that simplicity insults their intelligence might be Go's greatest feature.
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> Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo. That this has been allowed to go on in a land of plenty
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by jahaja 7y ago
You're right. Apologies. But surely I would get rightfully warned if I'd suggest that the US Army is a great example of successful Stalinism and link to my favourite commissar confirming my articulate trolling?

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