I appreciate that you have gone to some effort to avoid being needlessly controversial. Your article doesn’t read like strident propaganda; it reads like a thoughtful defense of capitalism that has been composed with an eye toward teaching people about rationality.
Nevertheless, I don’t think this should have been a top-level article. I have trouble seeing what it adds to the general post on fighting zero-sum bias, and I think that, despite your best efforts, your article does tend to marginalize people who are skeptical of the virtues of capitalism by implicitly portraying such skepticism as primarily caused by irrational thinking.
If you take a look at the other comments here, they seem like pretty good evidence that Politics is Still the Mindkiller. Although we’ve (so far) avoided trading insults over your post, many LWers are being distracted by the post’s political content to the point of staging debates about ordinary political issues that have almost nothing to do with rationality.
I appreciate that you have gone to some effort to avoid being needlessly controversial. Your article doesn’t read like strident propaganda; it reads like a thoughtful defense of capitalism that has been composed with an eye toward teaching people about rationality.
Nevertheless, I don’t think this should have been a top-level article. I have trouble seeing what it adds to the general post on fighting zero-sum bias, and I think that, despite your best efforts, your article does tend to marginalize people who are skeptical of the virtues of capitalism by implicitly portraying such skepticism as primarily caused by irrational thinking.
If you take a look at the other comments here, they seem like pretty good evidence that Politics is Still the Mindkiller. Although we’ve (so far) avoided trading insults over your post, many LWers are being distracted by the post’s political content to the point of staging debates about ordinary political issues that have almost nothing to do with rationality.