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Capitalism, as practiced by humans, absolutely has ideals and principles. they may be implicit, and they may be foolish and dangerous to enact, but it absolutely does.

Even the basic foundational logical arguments for capitalism are rife with assumption, and, ultimately, opinion.

Communism does, but applying it in reality and testing theory to practice is one of the major pillars.

Will you rephrase that?

Nah. Capitalism may not, in the strictest, theoretical sense, be an ideology. But it is, in actuality, an ideology. It is not simply an economic system, but rather, a complex ideological web, including an entire set of beliefs and principles about what reasonable behavior actually is. It is, however, an ideology that has a logical and economic foundation - however flawed that foundation and its operational reality may be.

My understanding of communism is fine. Not believing in the ultimate efficacy of your preferred system doesn't make me an idiot. But feel free to sling more mud, it makes you look great.

nice try, bot.

wait, printing multiple trillions of dollars causes inflation?! :pikachu:

But that's a part of the point I was making. They are ideological extremes, and don't function in reality - both because of flaws in the ideology, and because of the fundamental difficulty of getting most ideologies to be universally accepted.

ideological purity can't generally sustain itself, it must ultimately address external concepts (and actions).

Pure communism or pure capitalism would be systems of societal organization that function as close to the respective ideals of communism or capitalism as possible.

I'm surprised that was unclear.

"Ok, well, humans can't just teleport wherever they want, but what if they could?"

well, then they could, I guess.

"The emperor's soul" is a pretty good one. no worldwide stakes. cool magic system. not exploration themed. short, but excellent.

"Elantris" has some worldwide (or at least, society-wide) stakes, but no world-ending stuff. also, cool magic system. characters discovering what's happening with that.

"The Riyria Revelations" is a bit of good-natured skulldeggery as gotten up to by a couple of friends wandering about and thieving as honestly as can be.

Also, "The Lies of Locke Lamora", which is a bit more gritty and not always so good-natured, but has some nice thievery.

oh geez, i almost forgot:
"The Farseer Trilogy", and associated other books in that world. I once heard this described as "none of these are my favorite book, but this is my favorite series." this is extremely cozy, imo. there are societal-level stakes, but it's not end-of-the-world stuff.

Categorical imperative works for me, usually - as it does for everyone.

tsk tsk, extremist.

Wayland can run fullscreen apps, and react to mouse movements just fine.

issue is, so many things have been called transphobic, from mere personal opinions to accidents to actual transphobia, i just can't trust a blanket "foo is transphobic" comment.