I think one depressing example is innovation in weapons and other dangerous fields. “If we don’t build it, someone else will first” is unfortunately historically been shown to be true, has it not?
Today’s unsavory borderline reactionary doomposting brought to you by: my crippling fear that I’m isolating myself in a political echo-chamber (so naturally I gotta hop online and exclusively ask my fellow leftists)
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They organize and put in work. Landlords and small business ghouls are always part of some organization, or email blast, or chamber of commerce, etc. Sometimes they need to show up to meetings and do what they’re told to do (i.e. support X bill or donate to Y cause). And they will because the benefits they receive are worth the expense.
they understand that the universe is a vicious, dark, cold place that will turn you into a monster
they just think that’s cool
Can we truly say capitalism does anything “right” or “well” when it inevitably leads to societal and ecological collapse?
Even when it wins, in the long term it loses.
Imperialism
productive forcesAlthough look at the Soviet Union between 1924-1945
Even China’s HSR doesn’t fall under a capitalist model
Capitalism is better at making treats than any AES state was
soviet lack of light industry was actually kindof a problem for them
the love I have for certain branded kitchen appliances is shameful
The variety of things that can be turned into corndogs is truly the height of capitalist innovation.
It really is, and socialists under estimate how important corndogification is for the masses
There’s only one thing that can break through an echo-chamber: dialectical materialism
The one that I get is “competition breeds innovation”. I think they’re just wrong that it should always be monetary competition. Personal-prestige competition (such as academic reputations) can also be a powerful motivator. The USSR had a bit of this going on in the various OKBs.
Having dabbled in academia I have witnessed firsthand that no amount of economic/business rivalry will ever measure up to the unhinged competition of fanatically curious nerds
innovation in weapons and other dangerous fields
Once upon a time, before finance capital took over, sure I guess. But, just look at hypersonic missiles. Every attempt by Lockheed-Martin to launch one blows up on the launch pad, and China keeps one-upping themselves in that space.
They were correct so far on the resilience of capitalism
I assume you mean liberals, not capitalists. Well-regulated markets are efficient ways of maximizing happiness when distributing scarce resources, provided needs are all attended to and people have a roughly similar ability to participate.
Markets distributing scarce resources can only ever have a profit motive driving them, because that is the underpinning of the market. And so therefore they are not an act of maximizing happiness, they are an act of maximizing profit (even if the profit ceiling is imposed by regulation or not). It’s an unnatural construct that requires an incredibly dense onion of manufactured legal and social norms over time to simply maintain. I wouldn’t call that something that is done well
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NOTHING!
Internet piracy.
