{"id":2243,"date":"2014-01-03T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/03\/mistaking-capitalism-for-a-blueprint-as-to-how-to\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:55","slug":"mistaking-capitalism-for-a-blueprint-as-to-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/03\/mistaking-capitalism-for-a-blueprint-as-to-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Mistaking capitalism for a blueprint as to how to build a society strikes me as a really dangerous idea in a bad way. Capitalism is a remarkable engine again for producing wealth. It\u2019s a great tool to have in your toolbox if you\u2019re trying to build a society and have that society advance. You wouldn\u2019t want to go forward at this point without it. But it\u2019s not a blueprint for how to build the just society. There are other metrics besides that quarterly profit report.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/dec\/08\/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire\">David Simon: \u2018There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show\u2019 | World news | The Observer<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistaking capitalism for a blueprint as to how to build a society strikes me as a really dangerous idea in a bad way. Capitalism is a remarkable engine again for producing wealth. It\u2019s a great tool to have in your toolbox if you\u2019re trying to build a society and have that society advance. You wouldn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/03\/mistaking-capitalism-for-a-blueprint-as-to-how-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}