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Oshyan's avatar

"You can simultaneously believe in the miracle of capitalism and technology to improve living standards, while simultaneously rejecting the laissez faire attitude towards society and culture."

Or... you can realize that Capitalism's fundamental values are a-humanist and unable to account for the things you - and most people - *really* value. And you can decide then to devote your time, energy, intelligence, and resources to figuring out a system to value and promote and support what we *actually* need as humans.

We've had a series of "this is the best system we've found so far" throughout history. I'm sure there were some serfs in earlier eras who might have argued that serfdom was better than being a hunter-gatherer or whatever. But we ultimately found better systems. Why would we not be looking for one now, when the failures of Capitalism are so evident, and increasingly so? And indeed when such failures are arguably reaching a fatal tipping point (climate change, inequality, etc.).

I know I'm probably tilting at windmills a bit here with the fundamental orientation of this newsletter and you as an author. But that's precisely why I feel like this is a leverage point: you as a clearly thoughtful person who explicitly values things that Capitalism does not, and being simultaneously one of its most ardent defenders, this is a great opportunity to hone the blade of transcapitalism (or post-capitalism). 😄

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Goodness Nwanebu's avatar

This is so beautifully written, Evan. Technology is a way of revealing. On the flip side, I think one thing these advances will teach us is what it truly means to be human. Like you rightly said, many people are lonely, and this will only increase. And maybe we’d start to pay attention to human to human connections again. Small pockets of this movements are already appearing

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