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Explain this chart in one word.
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To be clear; markets are a powerful tool, Communism is bad, tech has on balance in the long run been a force for good. My position is best reflected here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zzar6BWML555xSt6Z/the-dial-of-progress
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One take I enjoy is that communism is ubiquitous within capitalism. Imagine having to pay your coworker a fee every time you need a PR review, or pay your parents every time they made you dinner. Also let's not forget that even communist nations exercised capitalism through trade with other nations.
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oh, I think that's another Talebism I find compelling: And it's a useful framing as well. Perhaps Capitalism is the right organizing principle at certain levels, and perhaps we need a 'secret Nth thing' at the global level.
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Yes, we need to be more mindful about all the different scales of coordination, especially as they're actively shifting (with network states maybe, AGI maybe). We as a species, we as a planet, we as a nation, we as a community, we as a family, we as a body, we as individual organs, we as a self or consciousness, etc.
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Conversely, we need to re-examine the totalitarian regimes of some capitalist corporations (on the outside; perhaps communist from the inside) as they approach and exceed nation-state scale/power, which are not unlike totalitarian communist states that performed atrocities at scale. This is the main leftist criticism.
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