> If you want to argue that “real capitalism has never existed,” and repeat “That’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism!” like a broken record, fine. But you can’t turn around then and use the products of a transnational corporation like Apple as an example of capitalism. If you do, you’re either stupid or a liar. It’s that simple.
I think he's just wrong and if he wasn't a leftist he would find it uncontroversial. There's both an ideal and a historical reality, and the historical reality approximates the ideal to a greater or lesser degree depending on the time and place.
The issue for leftists is that their ideals turn more and more into a nightmare the more closely the historical reality approximates the ideal. To protect the ideal from criticism, they are obliged to insist that the two are totally separate realms and that one does not inform us about the other.
Thus I can say "Hey, look at this modern capitalist system working pretty well, see how prices keep falling for new technology" and when someone complains about all the government intervention I can agree with them. The historical (or present) reality merely approximates the ideal.
It's like using the term "horse" both for the concept of horses and to refer to a specific horse, which might be lame or lazy.
Yes
Blue zones = coastal zones = ocean trade = wealth = access to fish and meat
Excellent sliding block puzzle game
It looks like Hangul (Korean) to me
you have smartphones?
58 sats for a zap that would have been 21 just a year ago
I think modern doctors are pretty decent for trauma care
But for chronic care or even acute illness I think you're better off without
I bought my mother lunch the other day - $55 that for a long time would have been $30
What if you just ate proper food and didn't need a doctor
Singapore and China have been outperforming Europe, Japan, Argentina, even the US
The point is that the suggestion box pretends to be a method of organizing society, but in fact is not
If you'd like to offer some way in which to make democracy real, please go ahead
otherwise
Qui custodiet custodiens?
I saw the new Matt Walsh movie "Am I a Racist?"
I think there are two target audiences: anti-anti-racists who know all the inside baseball and want to see Robin DiAngelo humiliate herself, and conservative-leaning people who think DEI is just about trying to be a good person.
I think a good portion of the latter will have their minds blown and be quite happy with the film.
I was in the middle - I don't care passionately about what so-called anti-racists do, and I was already pretty cynical about their grift. Consequently I found the film boring.
4 man-buns out of 10
A common example is the alleged under-provision of "public" goods
Eg you can't defend Cincinnati from nuclear weapons while excluding the home of some random guy, so he would prefer not to pay nuclear defense taxes since he would get defended anyway, therefore you are entitled to create a monopolistic nuclear defense agency that uses violent force to compel this random guy to part with his cash
Market failure is a term in the modern economics profession
Basically you dream up some impossible situation, call it perfect, denounce the market for failure to match your perfect model, and finally call for violent intervention to fix the alleged failure without assessing whether or not the violent intervention might also be subject to failures
It's possible, but it requires them to resolve the fundamental contradiction in their world-view, namely the incompatibility of liberalism with democracy
I like their 8 pillars but disagree strongly with the premise that government is meant to "distribute opportunity as widely as possible"
In any case, it looks like a bunch of normie liberals realizing the government is corrupt as hell