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Only Enlightened Collectivism Can Save Us — Caitlin Johnstone

It can be objected that enlightened self-interest* could do it. But enlightened self-interest as viewing one's personal interest in the context of system optimality can also be seen as a form of collectivism that moderates  individualism by restricting it, whereas the "correct" paradigm of self-interest is one in which individual maximization spontaneously generates Pareto optimality (even though history shows that it does not tend to do so).My view, which is characteristic of one form of...

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