Robert Hirsch
1 min readJan 4, 2021

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the limits on power come from actual consumers of the goods and services they provide. if they provide things people want at prices people and in ways that people want, they will grow. As they fail to provide any of all of those things, poeple will look elsewhere.

In neoliberalism (since you seem to be so infatuated with it), they do not need to serve customers at all. They can simply go to the government, get rules and regulations in place that give them monopolistic powers, and viola! No need to provide anything anyone wants. What product does Monsanto (or however they are hiding themselves now) make that people actually want? If they maintain their market via government grants, government regulations, government protections, then its socialism, and they have long left the realm of capitalism.

The box of things you hate, isnt capitalism. I hate them too.

The roots of words are irrelevant, every system you have there centralized power for psychopaths to weild as they wish. Only capitalism doesnt do this.

and while you have the definition of capitalism correct (you’ll note it doesnt include a government), your last sentence is just your unsupported claim. charities, unions, lodges, DAOs, etc etc are all welcome in a capitalist society because all of them are consensually joined. Profits are not a requirement or a guarantee in capitalism at all.

Now remove your conflation of “community” and “society” with “government” and you will be closer to how those other two monstrosities are implemented. Centralized power attracts psychos and reduces agency. Why do you want that?

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Robert Hirsch

Author, Maker, Father, Dreamer. Robert received his Ph.D. from RPI in Mechatronics. Since then, consumer devices, renewable energy, and now blockchain.