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DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah, the terminology around this kinda sucks. I always have an issue with whether I should call it capitalism or not when I mean a heavily regulated version of it, including some social policies.

I just don’t know a better word for it and it is difficult to concisely express what I mean without saying capitalism and hoping people figure out what I mean from context.

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aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I just use commerce or trade now. I found a good little blurb about it on medium.

medium.com/…/commerce-vs-capitalism-why-ethical-b…

Also, this book had some good points that spoke to me.

www.freeradbooks.com/home/commercenotcapitalism

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- DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I immediately dislike calling it commerce for 3 reasons:
  
  Most people will not know what I mean so I will have to explain every time
  
  Commerce is an existing word that means something different so it will still be confusing in a different direction
  
  I, on principle, don’t like abandoning words because some dumb group(s) appropriates them and tries to change their meaning
  
  I think I will try saying “regulated capitalism” from now on and see if it is better.
  
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  - aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Understood. Have a good day and thanks for mentioning CGP Grey, haven’t thought about that channel in a while.
    
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