> it seems to me that capitalism is just human nature.

Same, that's my impression too. (Ofc Beckert just says that that's my _naturalizing_ bias for growing up/brainwashed in a capitalist society...)

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the greatest, grandest cooperation for mutual well-being humans ever devised.

I get this feeling from the internet. It is a wonder that makes the stone stacking our ancestors did look like the work of ants.

Call it "capitalism" or the Great Enrichment or modernity or collective delusions or unsustainable blah-blah or whatever, but beautiful and magnificent it is.

This is good. This really gets to it. As I've been following along with your book club, I keep feeling like Beckert thinks capitalism is somehow not this thing that all humans naturally do, but instead the particular governance structure we've lately created. But it seems to me that capitalism is just human nature.

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Paul Seabright, Economic Life, and The (Very Natural!) Division of Labor

Going out of get this book right now. 

> the greatest, grandest cooperation for mutual well-being humans ever devised. 

I get this feeling from the internet. It is a wonder that makes the stone stacking our ancestors did look like the work of ants. 

 > Call it "capitalism" or the Great Enrichment or modernity or collective delusions or unsustainable blah-blah or whatever, but beautiful and magnificent it is.

This is good. This really gets to it. As I've been following along with your book club, I keep feeling like Beckert thinks capitalism is somehow not this thing that all humans naturally do, but instead the particular governance structure we've lately created. But it seems to me that capitalism is just human nature.