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Capitalism needs your malice to survive

Capitalism needs your malice to survive

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Carl Beijer
Aug 24, 2014
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Capitalism digs its own grave. One way it does this is by encouraging increasingly stupid positions in its defense. More and more, its apologists become untethered from economic reality and public opinion. They sell this as intellectual independence and elite insight – but hilariously, that posture becomes a license for every contrarian crank in the uni…

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