Mr. Spock about finatial capitalism
Published initially on Facebook the same day.In this meme above, Mr. Spock forgot to tell us the most interesting part! Considering that this is happening because a random dude (Adam Smith) that never had a clue about economics (it was a philosopher, for nowadays categorisation) wrote a book strongly biased by the knowledge of his epoch (a little later of Industrial Revolution) in which was claiming that who acts on a market do it by rationality, only (the rational agent) and thus all these "rationality" creates an invisible entity (the hand of the market, which sounds a lot like the hand of God and this made the success of his book and it is the reason because on the Fugio cent "care your business" has been replaced with "in god, we trust") that sets the things for the better (the rich are rich for the will of god, as protestants believe and thus being poor is the punishment of some kind of sin and because people born rich and poor and thus cannot have committed any sin, and reincarnation is not admitted, the decided because God knows everything he just choose who should be saved and not, spoilering this in the Earth life). So, technically speaking Adam Smith is a founding father of Protestantism. You might argue that Protestants 1529 (circa) are much older than Adam Smith 1776 (circa) but in fact he was the one that put such a belief into a "system" which dare to identify with the "market" ignoring that Bazaars existed thousands years before and never was working on that "structures" he was written about. So, are you surprised that "such a system" scaling up became a nonsense monstrosity? Nice of you that you cannot distinguish a chicken egg from a reptile egg, but everything was written since the beginning (as well can be said for Marx, another philosopher that erected as a iconic character inspired doing as much as damage as Adam Smith, both completely ignorant about modern science despite Galileo Galilei was 1564-1642 was born and died, however the philosophy of science has been completed by Karl Popper). ...and I am going to avoid telling you the most interesting part of this story, also. Learning is a process, step by step, like a path not a jump. The science discoveries, as well. And it is not a linear path, sometimes it takes turns - sometimes because it is bent by the power (covid) and sometimes for the best, but definitely not linear like every human activity, after all.
A triple capriate spoiler
Chatting with Gemini 2, we reach few but VERY interesting conclusions, keep yourself strongly attached to your seat, search a wall to stand against just in case you are going to faint!Related articles
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