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komali2today at 4:43 AM1 replyview on HN

Capitalism already is a poor allocator of human effort, resources, and energy, why lock in on this specifically? There's entire professions that are essentially worthless to society that exist only to perpetuate the inherent contradictions of this system, why not focus more on all that wasted human effort? Or the fact that everyone has to do some arbitrary sellable labor in order to justify their existence, rather than something they might truly enjoy or might make the world better?


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azan_today at 9:30 AM

> Capitalism already is a poor allocator of human effort, resources, and energy, why lock in on this specifically?

It's absolutely best allocator of human effort there is. It has some problems but compared to alternatives it's almost perfect.

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