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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, turned activist/whistleblower.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archi...-nationalised/
I post this here for your reading pleasure because it kinda shits on the idea that capitalist interests, ie protfit, is a more effective incentive than the overall benefit of scoiety.
When this many schools close in a British city because of the standard of buildings that were made barely over a decade ago, it's a big fucking deal. This is disrupting the education of a lot of children in a major city at a critical time... some have exams next month. Closing these schools would not be a decision taken lightly.
This is what happenes when critical infrastructure is built by capitalists. Money becomes more important than people.
His blog post is skimp on the details, so I can't address them.
But I can respond to this:
I post this here for your reading pleasure because it kinda shits on the idea that capitalist interests, ie protfit, is a more effective incentive than the overall benefit of scoiety.
The net of history, data, and theory overwhelmingly shits on the idea that the desire for societal benefit is a better driver of actual benefit than self-interest.
A way for you to understand this in your personal life could be as follows: who do you think is better at making decisions that affect you: you or a bunch of legislators in Arkansas?
Another way to understand this is about the things you have that you like: your food, your clothes, your internet, your home, etc., are all things that were created through the self-interest profit method. Additionally, there is a wealth of data on societies that did away with self-interest, and they all (without exception) did not develop the wonderful things you enjoy today and actually lost much of what they already had.
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