I'm not pretending to have all the answers here. You make good points, and I can see the Gamma values. The real thing that confused me about all this talk of capitalism being gamma was that I tend to think of government in general as anti-alpha (or at least anti-
). Any kind of reduction in the power of government, to my way of thinking is pro-alpha. But this is just my point of view.
This is specifically why I have trouble pinning down particular political and economic types to socionic types. Each type is typically necessary in any society, so any form of government that spans so many different cultures and countries is gonna be hard to type. I
would agree that capitalism, as it appears here in the US, is predominantly gamma. But other countries with very free markets, say Switzerland and Singapore, strike me as more Delta.
Also I think part of the difference on our perspectives here may be due to a different emphasis on
and
. I see these things through the lens of
, and evaluate these systems based on their ideals. You probably use
more, and evaluate these systems based on their structure. I dunno. It is an interesting discussion though.