/lit/ - Literature

>>6596188
>preserves the status quo and doesn't do anything to truly help anyone; it mainly provides another ego-boost for an already ego-inflated rich person

>market liberalization, micro-lending and NGO work in the global south has brought literally over a billion out of absolute poverty and beat UN development goals

>Against Malaria Foundation has saved tens of millions

>capitalistic mechanisms coupled with altruism are doing more to bring the periphery out of poverty than any revolution, central planning, or import substitution industrialization could hope for

The world is measurably better because of scary evil neo-liberalism, and men like Gates bolstering the progress of society is incredibly commendable. To ignore decades of development economics because it shows a clear falsification of the initial socialist thesis about liberal markets is the definition of ideology.

What is the most influential or largest work written under anonymity?

>>6582306
Well, Hobbes does allow for the sovereign to not be a single individual, but says that is structurally less stable. It's apparent this thesis doesn't stand up to the fact that after wealth increases allow a majority of populations to excersise political will, democracies where they can be placated by voting have far greater longevity. Add on work on the democratic peace and the fact that democracies are more stable now than 70 or 170 years ago and the idea that the sovereign must be a literal single body politic is one that has been falsified.