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by philwelch 4950 days ago
> A culture can stop being capitalistic and consumer-driven without becoming a fear driven dictatorship.

Do you have an empirical example of this?

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I'm not an expert on alternative economies (sorry) but I can name a capitalist consumer-driven society that is controlled by fear of their government.
> I'm not an expert on alternative economies (sorry)

You don't have to be an expert, but you did assert that is was possible. That usually implies some level of empirical evidence.

> but I can name a capitalist consumer-driven society that is controlled by fear of their government.

So can I, but luckily correlation doesn't imply causation.