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‘It’s never enough’: young Americans struggle to build financial independence as cost of living spikes
(www.theguardian.com)
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Is it a political ideology of capitalism — which honestly sounds quite weird and interesting — or is it political romanticism of capitalistic economics?
"Romanticism by politicians of capitalism economics" is an ideological position.
More broadly, resource distribution is highly political - should everybody get the same (the basis of Communism), should one's betters control who gets what (Monarchy, Fascism) or should it be a distributed system were being good at acculating trade tokens and assets (or being a descendant from ancestors which were good at it) determines one's access to resources (Capitalism).
I suppose that one could say that Capitalism has a lot thinner layer of ideological justifications for why that's the best system for decision making in a country (originally it was pretty much just "trust me, doing what's better for yourself is better for all", but one could say that in the present day that more visibly political part is done by Neoliberalism) but in practice Capitalism is none the less how decisions are made in the very much politically important aspect of human society which is "who gets what".
I suppose we could put it this way: if politicians decided that coin flipping was the way to make politicials decisions, so all decisions were done by coin flipping, would the politicial ideology be just the part were politicians say "we should decide everything by coin flipping" but not the actual coin flipping itself, or is the political ideology the entire thing (so, both the mechanical mechanism for the decision making AND the justification for that being "the best to use").
I think it's both, especially because when it comes to Capitalism the "mechanical mechanism" is way more complex and far less mechanical than coin flipping, requiring to operate things like for example Judicial decisions (which in turn are shaped by Laws), Land ownership, Inheritance and so on, which are not the mechanics itself yet have a disproportionate impact in the outcomes of the whole system (for example, without Land Ownership or Inheritance, Capitalist societies would be VERY different).
Interesting. See, I was thinking closer to the mechanistic function of capitalism wherein productive assets (“capital”) are primarily owned and controlled by private individuals/organizations. My brain was thinking, what would a political system look like if you replaced “productive assets” with, instead, “political assets.”