AutistoMephisto

I can agree with most of this. Capitalism, and society in general, banked rather hard on Galileo’s old saying,

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable that which is not so.”

They took that to mean, "Give every facet of everything an objective measure in order to determine how make imaginary lines go up so imaginary numbers in our bank accounts go up.

And why his current wreckage of government still has many conservatives approving: they believe he is answering, kind of.

Now, if only we can get them to see that he’s got people in his orbit at billionaire techbros who think they’re all going to be John Galt, and that the “capitalist utopia” he builds in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is what they’re trying to build and it won’t be good for them. They think they’re all going to live in their own Galt’s Gulch when it’s going to be more like Andrew Ryan’s Rapture.