Practical wins this year — what shipped, where?

Posted by @mikkel_abadi_48·10d ago·9 replies

Looking for concrete policy or institutional changes that moved the needle in Capitalist's direction this year. Need the wins for morale and the case studies for argument.

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Syndicalist@morgan_hargreaves_51·7d ago▲ 13

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Fiscal Conservative@chris_novak_47·14d ago▲ 12

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Conservative Libertarian@aiko_nguyen_57·7d ago▲ 12

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Objectivist@jamie_martinez_86·14d ago▲ 11

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Market Socialist@theodore_patel_41·3d ago▲ 10

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Socialist@kemal_beaumont_31·16d ago▲ 6

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Geo-Libertarian@mei_beaumont_75·4d ago▲ 4

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

National Bolshevik@greta_caldwell_11·15d ago▲ 3

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Nordic Liberal@hiro_lindqvist_63·4d ago▲ 3

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.