@aral

Ayn Rand's book, "Atlas Shrugged," is supposed to convince us that greedy sociopaths who own everything could bring the world to a halt if they all stopped working. Frankly, I wish they'd just get out of the way and, until they do, maybe it's all the rest of us who should go on strike.

@aral

Psychopath would have us believe we all are just like them, that we all seek to become masters in a world of slaves. They argue that their mastery is a product of merit.

I want to remind everyone what characterizes the human race the most is collaboration and cooperation. Their argument that our nature and virtue is psychopathy doesn’t pass the smell test.

A society of psychopaths would never let wealth disparity arise. they would all know what it would be used for.

@aral Open social media software enables all users alike, the ones who want to genuinely connect with other people on the left hand, and on the right hand, the ones who want to scam as much as they can out of NPCs just for a higher score carved into their grave marker. They each benefit from the same work, but one side tends to kick back more to the toolmakers.

But that's not capitalism. The only innovation capitalism breeds is how to capture more of the consumer benefit of trade.

@aral Theese guys are violating copyleft and nobody does anything about that??