How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer

Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by majormajor on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:05AM (#20291677)

We called what we have today capitalism before we realized the bad parts. Now that we've realized the bad parts, we need to change things to address those bad parts.

The more logical recipient of a new name is the new, fixed-capitalism you should be pushing for. Saying "oh the bad parts aren't capitalism, that's corporatism, that's different" is just playing word games to try to hide the fact that what we're doing isn't working as-is.

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Re:How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the ... by thaumasiotes on Thursday June 27, 2019 @02:30AM (#20292190)

"Corporatism" is a new word to me, so I'm inclined to agree that it's probably not a good idea to push for its use.

On the other hand, there are some much better established words for a close partnership between the state and a set of established major businesses: "crony capitalism" and "fascism".

"Fascism" isn't really a good idea either; in modern use it appears to be nothing more than a synonym for "badness".

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