this tends to be a primary ideological schism between (economic) progressives/conservatives; what yardstick are you comparing the state of the world against?
the former consider it a massive failure that there are still people in poverty; the latter are amazed there aren't more
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the question of how far existing systems are from some theoretical moral ideal is entirely the wrong one, and a massive distraction. instead,…
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this difference in perspective partially stems from an underappreciation of how difficult governance & supply chains are to build, maintain, and extend, due to unfamiliarity with the complexity of the systems involved in operating the modern world
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we live at the very pinnacle of thousands of years of progress & yet many do not appreciate just what it is we've accomplished, how much was sacrificed to get here
how del…
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this generates the furor re the evils of "capitalism", which conflates all the problems of the modern world with the concept of "iterated decentralized resource distribution using market mechanisms"
many do not understand what problem markets solve
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ultimately, while the integrity of the markets may seem rather unimportant to society, i shudder to imagine what would happen if they were to truly collapse, and the down…
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