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Kate Soper on Alternative Hedonism

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The Alternative Hedonism of Capitalism

In order to prevent free riders on the back of this, people who just benefit from what the majority are doing by being less consumer-oriented in what they do, it's going to involve quite a lot of heavy policing. A fluid taxation may be through very severe limits on road speeds and things of this kind. The market economy is providing for the goods that we still do, I think, want to have forms of exercise, forms of relating to each other, leisure time and various kinds. Capitalism then sells as some back at one remove, if you like.

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