i think that goodness is rare, by its nature, and thus requires more work than evil to achieve, but has a greater durability, so the initial outlay tends to be commensurate with the result
this is what people mean when they talk about "high time preference" - that is where you want the least work for the least bad result
"low time preference" is where you want the least work for the best result, over a much longer time window
i don't even understand what the socialist definition of any word means, but the word capitalism is the least clear
they seem to think that "capital" means power, and power is influence, and the ability to deceive
but actually, this is thanks to a historical linguistic thing
capitoline hill, one of the 7 in Rome, is the location of the Temple of Saturn
capital, in the sense of the german word "Kapital" as in the basis of the title of Marx's book "Das Kapital" ostensibly was talking about the matter of resources, what is understood by business people and a substantial part of the economic theorist population by the word "Capital" is simply the resources that can be applied to use for a given end
the optimal application of capital gives you the most beneficial result for the majority of people
the least optimal application of capital gives you the most beneficial result for the smallest minority of people
when i say "capitalism" i mean someone who works on optimizing the application of resources to the greatest profit for the greatest number of people, because i consider "capital" to mean resources and "capitalizing" is well understood to make the greatest possible value out of a resource
how "capital" and "power" get confused with each other is part of the mind trick that these plutocrats, or maybe it's more accurate to say they are members of the Temple of Saturn, which is on the hill called "Capitoline" and the word "capito" means to grasp, and there is two meanings of grasping
one is the basis of "entrepreneur" the french word for grasp, the latin "capito" is "pren-" and "entrepreneur" means to "grasp between" (entre means between, which is also related to the word for "enter" which means to penetrate an opening).
the other meaning of grasp is literally theft
so you see, there is a persistent and unmitigated confusion between the meaning of seizing opportunities and taking advantage of people using mechanisms of power, which depend on deception and theft
if you believed that black means light and white means darkness, then how could i have a conversation with you about the nature of the illumination of an environment, or an image?
same problem with this confusion between capital and power
if we can't agree what these words mean, we can't have a conversation, and this is a deliberate poisoning of the language, and if you actually have read Nineteen Eighty Four you would understand that one of the primary tools of socialists, or, as Orwell called them "Oligarchic Collectivists" is to distort the language, and eliminate logic that would mean people could understand they are being lied to
so, i hereby recuse from engaging in a conversation with a person who does not know the definition of "capital" and who confuses it with "power" and expects me to assume the same meaning of their words
i wish i could say there was some better option here but Stella bumped me into you and i am a fiercely free market, Misesian person who considers the OLD and ORIGINAL meaning of the german word "Kapital" to mean resources, not power, it is a terrible waste of my time to say one more word to you, unless you are going to do yoru homework.
