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Tay Zonday
@tayzonday
This is a valid sentiment. What Harvard Business School and CNBC call “Capitalism” IS in crisis. That being said— My take has always been that calling our present economy “Capitalism” is like calling Fig Newtons “cookies.” I know what a cookie is. That’s not a cookie. Today’s economy is theocratic witchcraft retconned onto John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, John Locke and Hegel as a placating cosplay. None of those philosophers imagined corporate personhood. None of them imagined private bankers printing public money. None of them imagined fractional reserve banking. None of them imagined fiat trading and manipulation. We cannot surrender to Ivy League goofballs and the CATO institute lying about their own mythos. THEY are the actual anti-capitalists. We have endless receipts. Many functionally humanistic economic policies align with a non-hypocritical read of “capitalist” philosophy. I REJECT the master’s semantics in dismantling the master’s house. Semantic lies melt to truth.
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Weh
@mintpossum
I will never get over how my Econ professor yelled at me for actually reading all of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and not just the excerpts he had us read to support his browbeating on capitalist virtues. The reason it’s “the dismal science” is because they are dismal at science. Some “knight” he was.
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Weh
@mintpossum
Yeah he got knighted for his supposed economic professional contributions when he was my teacher and he was so smarmy about it, missed class for a month but wouldn’t let me go to a doctor appointment I had an accommodation to go to.
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