GlyphMar 8
I would never describe myself as a "capitalist" but I do kinda understand the structure and function of markets a little bit, and it's sometimes frustrating chatting with leftists whose entire experience of markets has been watching the enormous trash-fire of post-2008 dysfunctional crime-based capitalism destroy the possibility of them ever owning a home. Like if you really liked trains but lived in a town where 3/4 of the population had been killed by a chemical supply train derailment
Show threadGlyphMar 8

"We should have better public transit!"

"Transit, what do you mean?"

"Like… you know… trains"

"Trains? Those machines that kill your entire family in wracking pain with clouds of poison from a realm beyond nightmares? Why do you want more of those?"

"Yeah but not like that"

Show threadjwz
@glyph This is dangerously close to sounding like "not all machine learning"
Mar 8 at 9:40amWeb
Show threadGlyphMar 8
@jwz yeah I get that. It's made even more difficult to talk about my own policy preferences in that every pro-capital-C-Capitalism argument is laundered through a starting-point like the one I think is valid. "But isn't it good if people can have an incentive to dedicate their own resources to infrastructure?" immediately gets a chain of a hundred syllogisms to "and thus, Elon Musk must be able to hunt anyone he pleases for sport anywhere in Australia, which he now exclusively owns".