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I don’t understand.

You’re claiming that capitalism is “bad” because there’s a hypothetical you imagined where there could be better outcomes?

Everything is “bad” by that standard.

Eg, “Airplanes are bad because they don’t operate based on anti-gravity warp drives! If airplanes want to shake that reputation, they need to do better!”

…do you have any reason to believe better outcomes are actually possible?



> You’re claiming that capitalism is “bad”

Can you show the court, on the dolly, where dspillett said it was absolutely bad?

IIRC the closest I came to that was suggesting it had a reputation for doing some bad things.

Saying something can improve is not the same as saying it is absolutely bad in all imaginable ways, unless you live in a fantasy world where there is no “meh” only perfection and anti-perfection.

> do you have any reason to believe better outcomes are actually possible?

Not much, beyond a small and rapidly diminishing supply of hope!




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