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   Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 10:10:54 JST Glyph

   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

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     neoluddite (neoluddite@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 10:10:52 JST neoluddite

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     • Darius Kazemi

     @darius @glyph what you hate is unconstrained capitalism. It's great at making complex things - electronics, computers, cars, medicines - but when left to its own devices concentrates power by buying out its competitors and metastasizes.

     Much like anything else that becomes unconstrained...

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     Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2026 10:10:54 JST Darius Kazemi

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     @glyph something David Harvey pointed out years ago that stuck with me: Capitalism is about 500 years old. Markets are much older than that. Markets are a prerequisite for capitalism but you can have markets without capital-c Capitalism