Capitalism is the best of the worst, but growth at all costs is its price
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Everything else, capitalism is fine. It's just that everything else sucks worse. It doesn't mean that it's actually perfect in any way, shape, form, or fashion.
Episode 239: Fuzzing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:51:33 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave says capitalism is fine: everything else just sucks worse. That doesn't make it perfect. Its cost is a perpetual growth-at-all-costs mindset that elevates materialist, outcome-based thinking above everything, and the West applies it to every part of life, like an infection. He says the same mindset kills momentum in projects.
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Everything has become about growth. And that's, again, another effect of inflation, everything, every industry is growth, growth, growth.
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Episode 202: Walletpocalypse (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:03:51 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
No, no other economic system has a closer to one to one pro con ratio than capitalism, but that doesn't mean that there's no
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Episode 202: Walletpocalypse (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:04:02 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
And one of them is just rampant commercialization of everything in our entire life.
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Episode 239: Fuzzing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:51:45 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
with is just this perpetual never ending growth at all costs mindset. And the, and it elevates the, you know, the, it elevates the materialist, uh, outcome based model above everything else.
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