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loquitor: i don't remember saying anything about being outside of ideology.
i do remember saying the opposite.
i don't see any necessary relation between the administrative hierarchies that capitalist organizations are built around and any particular set of competences distributed in a given population. you know perfectly well that one's actual competences are not the only, or even the most important, criterion for selection. this isn't to say the opposite is holds, that there's no relation--i think the relation is close to arbitrary (crossing in some cases, not in others)...the assessment is aesthetically motivated though--what you choose to emphasize, what you choose to downplay. anyone's is, mine included---but there's systematic data that you can appeal to that controls for this tendency. so i don't generally think in terms of individual Heroic Entrepreneurs in questions like this. you seem to like to alternate between individual Entrepreneurs and assertions about the world as if capitalist hierarchies and some "natural" distribution of skills are more or less interchangeable.
i don't buy it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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