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The dark history of Silicon Valley

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is the Model of Capitalism Sustainable?

Karl Marx's critique of the contradictions of capitalism was correct is correct. But he was also wrong in his expectations that the system would collapse under the weight of those contradictions. Maybe a system like capitalism works because it reflects something deeply true about us as creatures. I don't think we're cursed as humans, right? It's like we're curse as Anglo-Americans maybe, but I'm not a religious person and neither was Karl Marx.

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