[ExI] Capitalism, anti capitalism, emotional arousal

[spike]

From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Vaj
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>."Ideological capitalism" posits, at least as far as I understand it, that
this should not be any community's (ie, government's) business, since market
mechanisms are going to deliver all that automagically. In other POVs, on
the contrary, capitalism may be just a possible mean, amongst others and
subject to disproval, to an end, in particular in order to spare the
micromanagement efforts involved in total planning; ad in other POVs again,
it has shown by now its inability to deliver all that in the long term.

 

This is evenhanded and well stated, thanks.

 

 

>.Last post for today, I do not want to incur Spike's wrath... :-) --
Stefano Vaj

 

 

Stefano you have been here a long time and have never been a chronic
over-poster.  If someone has a particular topic for which they have a great
passion, and a flurry of activity comes up on a particular day, I will not
complain immediately.  I trust your judgment if you have a long history of
smart interesting commentary, sometimes called street cred.  When in doubt,
if you have something to say and have posted heavily some particular day, go
ahead, We are not rigid strict types.  On the other hand if anyone is
posting a lot of trivial, inane or annoying commentary, of course We will
watch that more closely and go offline to encourage the poster to think
harder and post smarter.  

 

We have had some successful experimentation with a temporary open season on
some particular hot topic.  I will watch, if something like that is needed,
or is requested, I am open minded to that.  I was thinking of opening the
Capitalism thread, but it appears to have peaked.

 

Our goal (Herr Assistant Moderator and Evolution) is not a rigid number of
posts in a strictly defined timeframe, but rather to improve the signal to
noise ratio of the ExI-chat list.  I am mostly encouraged by how things have
gone in the past couple years.

 

Play ball, me lads!

 

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spike  

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