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phil21today at 3:44 PM1 replyview on HN

No. This is how crony-capitalism works.

You could make a decent argument that capitalism will very likely end-game devolve into crony-capitalism as it's typical failure mode, but I don't think it's written in stone.

It's funny to me. Everyone rails about Atlas Shrugged being some libertarian fantasy story. I always read it as an allegory warning about crony capitalism and how it ruins society along with a story about trains and magical perpetual motion machines.


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timaclestoday at 6:17 PM

Socialism capitalism, history shows basically all human systems devolve into corruption regardless of how sound the underlying concepts are.

Which I’m surprised people don’t point out more. What does it matter which system is the best when at the end of the day the powerful people are going to make back room deals to subvert it and that always leads to a feedback loop