Breaking Up with Capitalism

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4 points·herbertl··4 comments

Cui bono? is a question traditionally used to solve criminal cases, so of course it would be unwise to attempt to apply it for sociological issues.

(as The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism points out, many early revolutionaries are interested in publicising answers to that question, but very few late ones)

sociological -> equitability (& revolutionaries -> reformists?) makes your response adequate for

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41565859?

(Im guessing that my increasing inability to parse (& engage with) your yc-related responses could be due to your professional expertise/our mutual interests :)

[peripherally, i also find it hard to tell if adastra22 is for real real — deep & subtle silos are realer]

Yes. (for anyone else, of course that "of course" was sarcastic)

In particular, Winston Churchill noted that the way to succeed in the politics of his time was not to stand there with elbows out, opposing the world directly, but to first (a) align along an axis of mutual benefit, and then (b) push along orthogonal axes to more subtly carve out your own best deal.

(as to yc-related responses: it's probably just my cluelessness about yc other than as hosts for this wonderful wainscoting)

And as with most of 1984's theses, is rather a nonsense claim.

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