I don’t disagree with any single point that you’ve made. I agree with most of them.

But you mentioned linux. Tell me again, Linus Torvald, was he employed under a capitalist country when he created linux? How about most of its contributors?

Your point is easily defeated. Please make a better argument.

Well, no. Paying professors isn’t free. Some places just hide their salaries in their tax money. But sure. Everyone gets education (I agree with this). Some people choose to be artists and… I guess they just fend for themselves?

Now, let’s be absurd. Pretend I’M a artist. I made a blank canvas, and I’m willing to sell it.

Yes, I think I’ve already agreed to that fact. Which brings us back to: how should we pay for those people to be educated? Who should we choose to create things? What should we do with everybody else?

No, and I never said that I did. Do I think that people are motivated to be educated and create things by capitalism? Yes, of course. It’s provably happened on both of our lifetimes.

Does that make capitalism the best solution? No. But obviously you’re gonna need to provide more data against it. This is a weak argument.

what does education have to do with inventing anything?

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How will we educate those workers, in order to produce better things? I guess some “workers” will be smarter than others. More intelligent. Should we send those stupider workers to the fields? Make them work off their stupidity while the genius better workers invent new machines?

Absolutely not! I’d ask why they should, and obviously there are many reasons.

…you do know what engineering is, right? It’s… Definitely not a magic ghost inhabiting halls. It’s learning physics, electronics, programming, and, well, engineering to create novel solutions to problems people have.

My point is that capitalism, for all of its failures, does indeed sometimes produce better things. You unequivocally hating on it, for no discernable reason, I can’t find a reason for that.

It’s coming from someone who dedicated their entire life to being smarter than you or me about electronics.

Go on. Give your opinion.

So it’s been a month. Care to link to your article about dating?