Shiny stuff and designer societies

nonomos nonomos at mail.com
Wed Oct 28 14:41:01 PDT 2015


Am I the only one who gets an automatic grin on his face when he/she
sees Juan posted something? 

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:57:38 -0300
Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:51:23 -0700
> 
> 2015-10-27 21:47 GMT+01:00 Shelley <shelley at xxxxxxxx>:
>  >
>  >     - Learn how to fix and repurpose things.  Take good care of
>  > your things so they last longer.
>  >
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> 	That sounds like true capitalism (savings) whereas the system 
> 	Lodewijk is advertising is mercantilism/consumerism/fascism. 
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> 	Notice that Lodewijk has whined in the past about bitcoin
> being 'deflationary', that is, not being a tool that can be used to
> 	covertly steal. 
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> Lodewijk : > I think a society
> > design that involves individual incentives (the best of capitalism;
> > advanced finance, legal persons,
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> 	He's talking about mercantilism. By "advanced finance" he
> 	actually means the banking mafia and government robbing
> 	everybody blind. 
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> Lodewijk : 
> > global optimization (the best of communism; managed competition,
> > fine tuned production, >designed markets<) 
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> 	That is to say, a mixed economy. Again.
> 	mercantilism/fascim/state socialism/state communism. 
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> 	Lodewijk is just a run of the mill fascist who thinks he has
> 	the 'god given' right to 'design' 'society' according to his
> 	fuckingly retarded tastes. 
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> 	Also, he likes to pretend that the bad outcomes of his fascist
> 	system are caused by innocent lambs who actually want to do
> the 'right' thing. Sick.
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