The most powerful critiques of capitalism are actually liberal critiques in that they appeal to the liberal principles that defenders of capitalism invoke, but show that capitalism does not in fact satisfy them even in the ideal case.
"‘If you get people to lower their shield, they’ll tell you it’s a big game they’re playing,’ he told me." "‘In economics..., if I’m trying to decide whether I’m going to write something favourable or unfavourable to bankers, well, if it’s favourable that might get me a dinner in Manhattan with movers and shakers,’ Pfleiderer said to me."
Part of the problem came from the fight for economic dominance during the Cold War. The fight to prove which was better, Capitalism or Communism, made a lot of people go nuts with economic theories
Bash the economic models, not the person who came up with them.
I don’t know enough of the theory to dispute anything you said about the flawed assumptions. But I’m sure Nash’s theories are solid under the presumed assumptions, which are for sure overly simplified and possibly deeply flawed. But then blame the people adopting these models without checking if the assumptions are valid.
It’s like models that holds only for spherical cows in a vacuum and people want to apply it to giraffes on earth.
I would have been completely with you if you bashed the economic models, you gave a reasonable explanation on why they’re flawed, if you wouldn’t have multiple times mentioned the psychological issues of the mathematician who came up with it.
Probably an edge case, but I have a sweet Mastodon vanity username and I'd like to use the power of the Fediverse. Interacting with Lemmy from Mastodon itself is a little clunky (I acknowledge that it's still early days!)
Is anyone developing a Lemmy client that lets you use a Mastodon account?