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>>9052874
>>9052890

that's a fascinating reading of the situation. what i had in mind by aristotelianism had something to do with the idea of the moral economy:
ima start with the fact that we exist in an age of neoliberalism. that is, we exist in an economic//capitalist environment whose major conservative discourse is predicated on the idea of deregulation: that the less regulated the economy is, the more it can function as a neutral, self-policing arena (except for key exceptions—trusts and monopolies, for instance, which do require government intervention and which stand as a rare exception in the conservative model). this arena operates (according to smith’s “invisible hand” theory, and later, hayek’s appropriation of that idea into a conservative political framework) to determine economic “winners and losers” based on in-built criteria: mainly, how prudent, strategic, cunning, frugal, etc. an individual or corporation actually is, e.g. the neutral judgments of the economy are based on the idea of meritocracy.