More than one set of policies and ideals can be shitty at the same time. Just because authoritarian central planned economies failed doesn't mean we should never try anything else ever again that isn't pure capitalism or refuse to criticize its faults.
More than one set of policies and ideals can be shitty at the same time. Just because authoritarian central planned economies failed doesn't mean we should never try anything else ever again that isn't pure capitalism or refuse to criticize its faults.
You can complain (read: peaceful protest for redress of grievances) without going whole hog the complete opposite way.
Most of this end-stage crapitalism was warned by Adam Smith, and then by Marx.
And what did economists do? Fucking ignore it. Or named it trickle down.
So, yeah. When the capitalists control the government, you get all the abuses written about it for the last 300 years. And it fucking shows.
Computation and copyright was just dropping helicopter loads of gasoline on the already terrible fire.