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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
4h ago“When has the free market given you something great that planning never would have, or let you down when rules might have helped?”
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I think where I’m at, from reading just what you wrote and linked, is here: re: integrity: I think what the landlord and ABP are doing is in integrity, unless they’ve tried previously to present themselves as mission-driven, caring first and foremost about the Austin climbing... To add a bit more about the profit-driven perspective: inside "capitalism ftw", everything is working perfectly if Crux is barely scraping by Landlord thinks his space is worth way more money than Crux is willing to pay Landlord reaches out to ABP, and ABP says, "yeah, we’re... - Terry387...
Is capitalism broken?: Ordoliberals
On June 20, 1948, Ludwig Erhard abolished price controls and introduced the Deutsche Mark in a single weekend. He did not consult the Allied authorities. The American military governor told him it was a terrible idea.... Is capitalism broken?: Social democrats
The homework everyone refuses to copy Denmark’s unemployment rate in 2024 was 2.7 percent. Its median household income, adjusted for purchasing power, exceeded America’s. Danish workers average 1,380 hours per year; Americans average 1,811.... Is capitalism broken?: The Story
Two scoreboards, both true In 1990, roughly one human being in three lived in extreme poverty. By 2019, fewer than one in ten did — the steepest collapse of material misery in recorded history, and it ran through markets, not around them.... - onHealth trackers are nanotech now that can live in your bloodstream and give instant data on stress levels, your body’s response to what you just ate, whether your brain is getting enough glucose for the presentation you’re about to give, etc. The data is analyzed by medical AI, and the accuracy of diagnoses skyrockets. This tech revolutionizes preventative care, replacing mammograms, colonoscopies, blood draws, etc, and there are specialized bots that can pinpoint chemo and/or radiation to cancer cells only, leaving the rest of the body healthy. by
I think the only problem here is that capitalism wants to make a profit over the story of "X product will help you" versus it actually helping you.... yeah I sometimes think people cling onto the idea of capitalism as a process because they don’t know how to keep adjusting their aim to what they actually value.... to add specificity, I think these are the missing steps that lead to "capitalism for the win" being good for all: Crux is barely scraping by Crux is unwilling to increase their prices or cut their costs Landlord thinks his space is worth way more money than Crux is willing to... - stephen...
That said, I got a great insight and increased ability to love people when you clarified on the video that the way your saying it is about how "late stage capitalism" got in you, and you’re kicking down the sandcastles of its structures inside of your psyche.... I love seeing you claim this lifelong delight and allow it to play more. You’re right, it’s been here all along and now we can delight in it together much more openly. :) I dont fully understand the statement of intent....