1/ Meta: Ok, thinking out loud, what is the purpose of this? What have we learned that is of value?
The initial insight was how unscientific economics actually is. How they use extremely simplified models of the world, and then make actual changes in the real economy based on these models.
TW for pissing off everybody
Also that both communism and capitalism are extrapolations on such economic models and therefore tend to drive towards extremism/fundamentalism to try to make reality more like their models. Since both communism and capitalism here then take more the shape of religions, they will naturally drive members towards being “more pious”. As many cult-like entities they need clear enemy stereotypes figures, and also saint-like icons, whom can fall hard after being placed on pedestals and then not being “right”/“pure”. There is a drive to the bottom because the only way “paradise” can be unlocked from their models is if reality contorts itself. And since the promise of “paradise” is so strong and clear, they will accept that some people/lives will be lost, but it will be worth it in the end, when the model fulfills its promise of utopia. So there seems to be a built in drive for war/revolution/oppression.
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