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oh i like this one a lot, especially @3blue1brown.com 's commentary on credit and ownership and, approximately, meaning-making it resonates with a central conflict i have with society; y'all way too into 'status' and 'credit' and it's a wonder anything useful ever gets done in that context

a lot of what is bad about capitalism (as opposed to the market economy, yes I seperate them) *is* basically this though - a society constructed around megalothymia, the idea that "I, and I *alone*, brought this great thing to life, and deserve *all* the money/recognition/etc from it"

it's not that I don't agree. it's that I think the megalothymia predates the capital structure a bit, like it seems to ride in on much earlier. historical developments

Oh I 100% agree with that - if feudalism is the megalothymia of the agricultural/manorial economy, then capitalism is the megalothymia of the market economy