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> shallow culture
> But if you talk about ideas toward democracy, gender equality, war, medical experiments ... people HATE variety of culture.
This is a little bit out of date already - it's a professor saying it - but it's still a valid point, all the people who "want multiculturalism" don't actually want it...
> One idea would be to break global communication
> Just have each county have their own religion and so on, and they can trade but they cannot talk with the rest of the world
> That would be a plausible route, but nobody likes this.
> which is their sense of morality that they inherited from their culture
> is exactly the thing that you can't trust.
> And that's a really big ask for most people.
> Most cultural shifts are driven by youth movements
> Before high-school, youth would mingle with older people and assimilate culture from the older generation
> Because Capitalism is one thing that still works and evolves pretty well - in that itΒ kills off the firms that are not eugenic
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@cjd if it's not the crony capitalism of today, ok. the west is ussr in technicolor instead of shades of greyish brown.
My opinion is that Capitalism can only function within bounds - because if it's unbounded then there's no reason not to just shoot and bomb your competitors until you have a monopoly, and there's no reason to even keep producing things when you can just just bomb and shoot everyone who refuses to pay tribute to you in exchange for nothing.
@cjd i'd say it's a function of high trust society, "free market" doesn't exist in a vacuum but in society.
you don't nuke your competition in high trust society because you also value not having to worry about getting nuked. only thing that has to be done is removing the 5% shitting in the pool.
the other ones will very likely cooperate on their own accord. i've had shops telling me to go to their competition because they themselves were out of stock, for example.
@cjd did i move all my business over to their competition? did i recommend the competition to others? no, i recommended those who were honest.
you have to worry about getting shot in societies composed of "people who lack the ability to think about the future". (hint, don't import those people)
@cjd Capitalism has certainly proven to be the best economic system. Particularly when it's strengths are unleashed. The big problem we have not is that regulation tends to provide barriers to its strengths and amplify it's weaknesses.
One example, is disruption. In the short term, it can be quite bumpy but in the long term is a huge strength of capitalism, but most regulation favors entrenchment. If these regulations were in place in early 1900's we'd still be on horses.