Comment by whatever1
2 days ago
It’s ok. Most of our opinions suck and are unoriginal anyway.
The few ones who have something important to say they will, and we will listen regardless of the medium.
2 days ago
It’s ok. Most of our opinions suck and are unoriginal anyway.
The few ones who have something important to say they will, and we will listen regardless of the medium.
Humans are evolved to spend fewer calories and avoid cognitively demanding tasks.
People will spend time on things that serve utility AND are calorifically cheap. Doomscrolling is a more popular past time than say - completing Coursera courses.
The liberal idea that the best ideas win out in the marketplace turned out to be laughably wrong.
I'd argue that they do win out, it's just not the ideas that we thought were best.
"Best idea", but it's "best" by memetic reproduction score, not by "how well does this solve a real problem?"
Same thing with evolution: "survival of the fittest" doesn't mean "survival of the muscle", just whatever's best at passing on DNA.
The marketplace is a terrible mechanism for truth-finding except for all the others. What's your proposed alternative that doesn't just relocate the problem to whoever gets to be the arbiter?
Wouldn’t say it’s a liberal idea. It was a foundational argument in jurisprudence, from Holme’s dissent in the Abram’s case.
Let's clarify, maybe the best ideas would win out in the "level marketplace", where the consumer actually is well informed on the products, the product's true costs have to be priced, and there was no ad-agencies.
Instead, we have misinformation (PR), lobbying, bad regulation made by big companies to trench their products, and corruption.
So, maybe, like communism, in a perfect environment, the market would produces what's best for the consumers/population, but as always, there are minority power-seeking subgroups that will have no moral barriers to manipulate the environment to push their product/company.
They get drowned by bots and missinformation and rage bait and 'easyness'.
Economy is shit? Lets throw out the immigrants because they are the problem and lets use the most basic idea of taxing everything to death.
No one wants to hear hart truths and no one wants to accept that even as adults, they might just not be smart. Just beause you became an adult, your education shuld still matter (and i do not mean having one degree = expert).