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> This almost seems to be a weird artefact of capitalism.

I don't see how this would be causally linked to capitalism in any meaningful way.



Because hundreds of years after multiple things have proven that systems with free and open flow of information, skills, and techniques beats any system where information is walled off, capitalism (or corporatism really) still insists, all too often, on favoring feudal style top down methods of control instead of bottom up “empower the teams and facilitate the flow of information”; they don’t merely suppress the flow of information they actively ignore information; and they prefer people idle rather than work on non-approved priorities.

Many people use capitalism to mean the system of multinational corps and their secretive, hierarchical, and morally offensive ways, rather than anything to do with free market economics (which are predicated on the free flow of information in the market).




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