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> Speaking from anecdotal experience, over the years this constant push for more complex and efficient work from individuals has lead to me cutting more corners than I ever wanted to and producing more questionable products and services in the name of efficiency.

I read a while ago a perfect word to describe this world we're living in: crapitalism.

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You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think the soviets or Chinese also don’t cut corners under their economic systems.

You're kidding yourself if you think the op was suggesting we abandon capitalism. This absolutist mindset has to stop. We can acknowledge our current system is flawed without suggested we abandon it entirely for something else. The reality is that our regulation of our system could be better.

Your binary thinking is lazy and closes you off to the possibility that we could improve our system.

I gave two counter-examples of different economic systems. It’s clear capitalism isn’t the problem if you think about why those other systems failed.

If you think about what you just said, it makes no sense:

> I've given two examples of different economic systems that I've deemed failures that prove our specific implementation of an economic system isn't problematic.

That's like saying:

> In my opinion bikes and trains are failures that prove my gas guzzling SUV is the best vehicle in the world and there's absolutely no room for improvement in any way.

Those weren't counterexamples, they were red herrings.

Sure, but you got a lot more bang for your corrupt buck if you were a regular citizen in the USSR and CCP.

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