@vitalik.eth willing to have a good faith conversation around this
late stage capitalism has its downsides

but do you think even small movements towards communism/socialism are dangerous wrt innovation and regulatory capture

i guess my question is: can innovation actually occur in less capitalistic and more communist regimes?

his argument is that we don’t know yet, so there is no answer unless you collapse the argument to we do in fact already know

the willingness to do what people hate without malevolence attached is a sign of strength, regardless of being a subjectively weak position