{"id":25208,"date":"2018-02-20T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25208"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T02:05:41","slug":"bhu-srinivasan-capitalism-isnt-an-ideology-its-an-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/02\/20\/bhu-srinivasan-capitalism-isnt-an-ideology-its-an-operating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn&#8217;t an ideology &#8212; it&#8217;s an operating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>TED Talks<\/em> has this short video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/bhu_srinivasan_capitalism_isn_t_an_ideology_it_s_an_operating_system?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2018-02-17&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_content=talk_of_the_week_button\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn&#8217;t an ideology &#8212; it&#8217;s an operating system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thinking about capitalism as a firm, unchanging ideology, he suggests that we should think of it as an operating system &#8212; one that needs upgrades to keep up with innovation, like the impending take-off of drone delivery services. Learn more about the past and future of the free market (and a potential coming identity crisis for the United States&#8217; version of capitalism) with this quick, forward-thinking talk.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/bhu_srinivasan_capitalism_isn_t_an_ideology_it_s_an_operating_system\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I have said that I am a &#8220;what worksist&#8221;, but now maybe I can talk in terms of operating system.  The way I would talk about China versus the USA is that China has a much more flexible operating system than we do.  I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily subscribe to the details that he thinks are indicative of the Chinese system versus ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED Talks has this short video Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn&#8217;t an ideology &#8212; it&#8217;s an operating system. Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thinking about capitalism as a firm, unchanging ideology, he suggests that we should think of it as an operating system &#8212; one that needs upgrades to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25215,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25208\/revisions\/25215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}