the main case people make for capitalism is that it gets incentives right to encourage people to act, to produce.
but a capitalism under which the key to wealth is riding number-go-up by owning the right assets engenders very different incentives than to act, to produce.
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@interfluidity And going for "no social security!" is an admission of guilt, specifically that the incentives are known to work in reverse.
