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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @79c9095526 OP 10h \ parent \ on: "Free market capitalism" in America. Are we happy with the results? econ
Agreed completely. Our crony capitalist system with completely captured 'regulators' is bullshit and consumers are tricked into thinking they have someone on their side.
The problem is that we will always get the government society we deserve, always has been true and always will be.
If the government nationalized and consolidated the airlines for example, you'd have half of people demanding free airfare because muh oppreshun
The top 20% or so would then come up with the aforementioned parallelism, like hyperloops and suborbitals, that would eventually buckle to the combination of wanting economics of scale and PR pressure that they're elitist, such that they become a state enterprise themselves
So instead of accepting emergent classes we homogenize into a single class where the top quintile isn't even a factor
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And take the utmost pride of belonging for it.
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Yea sociology is really just biology if you think about people as cells in the larger organism of society.
Virtue signaling is just cell signaling, and the organism is the average of its cells.
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