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kubbtoday at 7:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

I think it’s productive because it serves to stabilize the society by giving it an ideological underpinning.

Roughly: there’s no better alternative to capitalism and we have capitalism therefore we have reached optimal society.


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jrm4today at 5:30 PM

I think you're doing the thing I'm literally railing against; I believe the tendency to turn a relatively simple concept like "we should have a society that has peace and also favorable trades" into IDEOLOGY is precisely how we end up with overreach.

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microgpttoday at 1:07 PM

just in case anyone else misunderstood this comment on their first reading, kubb is not praising capitalism here

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