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This is a response to an earlier article by Scott Alexander, and he's already written a response to this one, too:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/21/contra-robinson-on-publ...

The general idea is "you can't compare real capitalism with a fantasy government, you have to compare real capitalism with a real government, and real governments are worse than real capitalism"

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You can absolutely compare the real with a fantasy. That's how innovation happens.

Well, yes, but you generally have to have a plan for how your innovation happens, rather than "my version won't have any of the problems the existing versions have" without having an explanation for how you achieve this.

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