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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 15 hours ago

Lol yeah, an economist realizing their entire field is built upon fucking over as many people as possible, and then realizing that's how governments collapse... And that's the fundamental problem, right? If run perfectly, capitalism makes life terrible for 99% of the world. The only way to make it less shitty is to make it ... less ... capitalistic.