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Just assume, arguendo, that it's all true, that every word is gospel, that the whole of Ben's POV is actuality as best he can express it, the wonderfulness in mind for the world, while admittedly able to provide great benefit to people who really need it, does not remediate the problem.
THE problem is that this mode of living cannot be sustained, and so the idea of training people to productively function within it is utterly frivolous thinking.
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No. Wait. It's more even than that, though that is the bottom line. Teaching people to function within a mode of living designed to make people pay to exist, to make us slaves only called "citizens", is no kind of solution. At best it makes the misery a little less oppressive for the oppressed, but that could not ever hold. The fatal flaw is in its design. The ultimate in fulfillment of democratic capitalism is fascism, aka feudalism, suffering masses with elites living really, really laaaarge.
Go back to the drawing board, Ben.
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