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Capitalism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The problem of Bigness (which Kant called the 'Sublime', and which Louis Brandeis remarkably presciently warned in 1912 was 'the evil of Bigness')
        
        A democratic threat in which vast megapolis are unelected and therefore unimpeachable. They are not only too big to fail, but too big to control, and therefore too big to resist
        
        We are simply repeating the class inequities we tried to escape in
      - Commodify colossal amounts of digital exhaust to sell certainty to businesses who would like to know with certainty what we do: 'surveillance capitalism' (Shoshana Zuboff)
    - - Drug dealers and social media companies are the only businesses to refer to their customers as "users"
    - - Flexibility with commodified by
- - - - Adam Smith: When self interested individuals pursue selfish ends, it creates efficiencies in the free market by maximising utility for everyone
        
        Commentry on
        
        Utilitarianism (Jeremy Bentham)
        
        Ethics
        
        Virtue ethics
        
        Religion
        
        Hedonistic Consequentialism
        
        Pluralistic Consequentialism
    - - The circumstances of poverty perhaps inspire questions of the meaning of life, but preclude an opportunity to discover meaning IN life, due to limited opportunity. Suffering, due to difficult circumstances, for instance, intersects with our attempts to make sense of our lives in this universe. We can wonder if there is an intelligible, existentially satisfying narrative in which to locate - make sense of - our visceral experience of suffering and give us solace or hope. Evil in a meaningful universe does not cease from being evil, but it can be more bearable within these hospital conditions
- - - - Meritocracy
        
        Resolves the concerns with
        
        Fuedalism
        
        did not have
        
        Equality of opportunity
        
        aimed to create
- - - - The motley crew of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick yielded to conformity in the service of a mission without meaning (i.e chasing the white whale). America, similarity, have a common creed: consumption.
        
        Conformity
        
        kills
        
        Creativity
        
        Art
        
        Fashion
        
        Music