its weird that there is an entire professional caste who has assumed control over who is allowed to attempt to make useful things. (venture capitalism)

and everyone is just fine with this.

@icedquinn the main alternative is an entire nonprofessional caste who has complete control over who is allowed to attempt to make useful things. (central planning)
VC is far from ideal but oh boy is it still miles better lol

@Amikke maybe the premise that a tiny group of society being the prime deciders of who gets to do anything should be rejected out of hand

@icedquinn easy to reject existing solutions, harder to make better ones.

@Amikke several people already did. sortition, or c. h. douglas. hell the one MIT paper examined that literally just randomly distributing resources fares better overall
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@icedquinn I'd like to see that paper lol, sounds pretty ridiculous.

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