Comment by ninetyninenine
3 days ago
A lesser known book from Jane Jacobs: Systems of survivals.
Really great book on the nature of corruption. And really the problem with capitalism.
3 days ago
A lesser known book from Jane Jacobs: Systems of survivals.
Really great book on the nature of corruption. And really the problem with capitalism.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival which points out her own dichotomous analysis which may be related to the liberal/conservative axis being discussed in another thread which I started...
I was coming here to say the same.
The two "moral syndromes" she describes are a great framework to understand why, for example, people cannot easily switch from business to government work: different moral systems apply (aka her "systems of survival").
yeah that was really interesting. But what caught my interest the most was the hybrids. To me it was less about how "hard" it was to switch. But the really more about the horrible downside of when the two syndromes combine.
A big mega corp lobbying the government is in a way, a hybrid. And that is in a nutshell one of the fundamental problems we face in society. Is Donald Trump a hybrid? Donalds business interests are combining with a system that was designed to be honorable (the presidency).