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Originally Posted by edgeprod
I'll point out, though, that research for the sake of research doesn't mesh well in a free-market society. This plays better in Socialist- or Communist-trending economies like in China and Europe.
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I wouldn't be in too much of a rush to buy into that differentiation. Capitalism, socialism, communism and all the other isms are all collectivist systems at root. Capitalism sits better with most of us, because it allows us to retain more illusions, but even the core principle of private ownership is largely that, an illusion. The unvarying common factor is that people are treated primarily as economic units who exist to serve an elite.