Rolf_Andreassen comments on Good Idealistic Books are Rare - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rolf_Andreassen 17 February 2009 07:45:51PM 2 points [-]

I have a hard time seeing idealism in the Incredible Bread Machine; to me it seems rather to be very deeply cynical about government. Perhaps it is a difference of emphasis in reading, but I see its thesis as "Government is bad" rather than "Capitalism is good"; the inventor-as-hero only appears so that the badness of the government can be demonstrated.