@labeochrysophekadion mmm, people do those things in spite of market incentivesbecause they're incentivised also by not-sufferingwould be nice if the two were mediated, rather than being in direct conflict
@labeochrysophekadion among capitalist systems, a free market is a maximally unstable state, the most conducive for creating governmentsa system with "public" and "private" governments checked-and-balanced is also unstable, but less sosometimes market incentives and people-not-suffering overlap. and sometimes they don'tfor those places they don't overlap, only outside market regulation can reduce suffering
@labeochrysophekadion we have capitalism in many countries right now without a free market. free markets are unstable and ephemeral; they cannot exist for any significant length of timeif you have no "public" government, who will force the "private" government to pay?
@shmibs without free market there is no capitalism
the only problem with any government is humans
remove humans and replace them with robots = no corruption
not market regulation, but removing the regulation and transfering it back to people
right now all land all air and oceans are owned by governments give them back to population and force every company to pay rental prices to peoplem not into gov pockets
@labeochrysophekadion art exists because artists write and draw and make music despite being rewarded by no onehigh-budget movies are terrible because they are profit-motivatedtoday's countries cover a spectrum of regulated markets, some with that regulation turned more towards reducing suffering than others, but none where the two are equally valuedbecause this regulation is unstable, it always progresses towards one government or the other dominating
@labeochrysophekadion yes, budget movies are horrible because they must cater to the market, rather than made freelyrenaissance artists had to self-censor and pander, working on projects like the sistine chapel, because the art they wanted to make had no market valuechildren drawing doodles is art
@labeochrysophekadion most movies are garbagesome are good, because they're made by directors and teams who move freely and aren't market incentivisedboth art and scientific research cannot be effectively practised when bound by market incentives because they have a very high "failure" to "success" ratio. innovation requires failure, and failure is not profitableso instead we have disney and microsoft
@labeochrysophekadion effective research and art are not products people can pay for. they don't fit within the market paradigm, and so largely do not exist in the modern world outside of marginal pocketspeople in these pockets do art and research in spite of the market, and the market does its best to exploit the results, running on diminishing returns until it finds something new to exploitit is extremely inefficient
well then don't pay to disney and microsoft and they will go bankrupt
oh wait actual people actually want their productsand they don't want whatever children are doodlingcreating crap no one wants is not art it's wasting resources and polluting the globe it's activelly killing people
you know who also was A MISUNDERSTOOD UNPOPULAR ARTIST?
@labeochrysophekadion > government invests n100 billion in public research funding every year> most of it goes nowhere> companies borrow bits that do and apply in engineering> company receives money> company is praised for amazing new drug/devicecorporate r&d cannot innovate freely because it's profit motivated. and now universities can't innovate freely either because public funding is being progressively reduced and researchers spend most of their time on grant proposals and squabbling, which also encourages trend-following and the falsification of datahere's a nice book, though a bit out of date by now as the trend it maps has continued to progress in the last few years https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/knowledge-sale