Mark Andreessen summarizes this nicely as strong opinions loosely held.

So as a society, if you're true seeking,

you want to have strong opinions, but very loosely held.

You want to try them, see if they work in the error correct if they don't.

But instead, what we get is either strong opinions strongly held,

which is the intolerant minority,

or we get weak opinions loosely held,

which is the compromise model where no one really takes blame,

no one gets credit, no one gets to try it the way that they want to,

and everybody can then fall back on real communism hasn't been tried.

Although in that case, real communism has been tried.

It just hasn't worked out well as a digression.

One of the common critiques that I hear people say we need to move to a post capitalist

word, capitalism isn't working.

Okay, well, what is your alternative?

And usually this is where people start fumbling because there aren't a lot of choices.

When you're trying to figure out how to divvy up credit,

divvy up resources and reward people for their work,

you essentially have two choices.

Feedback from free markets and reality,

and the best model for that is money,

or you have feedback from people,

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