[Barrin92]

>Lemme know if you have anything better.

I think there are some pretty obvious things. Improvement of the environment, health, safety, educational attainment, military prowess and so on.

As Michael Sandel put it, since the 80s we've moved from a market economy to a market society. Markets aren't used as tools any more to further social ends, they've become ends in themselves. We don't measure success in human flourishing, we measure it in dollars.

Ironically this has made much long-term wealth creation impossible. Many companies in Silicon Valley were sustained by the government pursuing strategic goals, in particular the military.

Industrial ecosystems don't spring out of the ground because of selfishness and greed, they're created by institutions.

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> Industrial ecosystems don't spring out of the ground because of selfishness and greed, they're created by institutions.

barrin92 meet Charles koch.