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If Your Father Is An Air-conditioner Repairman From Nebraska, Its Conceivable That You Might Become A Ceo, But You Can't Imagine Being The Drama Critic For The New York Times. So If You Come From A Background Like That And You Want To Actually Have A Career Which Involves Doing Something Noble In The World, What Can You Do? You Can Join The Army. That's About It. Or You Can Work For The Church. That Explains A Lot Of The Focus Of Right-wing Populism. The Right Wing Figured That Out, That People Want Enough To Survive And To Do Good.

We Don't Live In A Capitalist Totality. Capitalism Couldn't Survive As A Totality Anyway. We Live In This Complex System And We Already Live Communism And Anarchism In A Million Forms Everyday.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.

I Think We Need To Think Of Capitalism As A Very Bad Way Of Organizing Communism. Much Of What We Do Is Already Communism, So Just Expand It.

If You Want To Minimize The Possibility Of Unexpected Breakthroughs, Tell People They Will Receive No Resources At All Unless They Spend The Bulk Of Their Time Competing Against Each Other To Convince You They Know In Advance What They Are Going To Discover.