• @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    Both can be true.

    Capitalism didn’t create itself… She’s just looking at the root of the problem instead of its effects.

    • deaf_fish
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      122 months ago

      Yeah, I just can’t stop pooping out capitalism. It’s literally a natural thing that I do. /S

      • @Pilferjinx
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        -32 months ago

        Communism will fix it, right? Right?

        • deaf_fish
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          42 months ago

          Hopefully something will fix it. Maybe it’ll be communism. It’s just a little ridiculous to believe that humans are hardwired to be capitalists. Especially since we’ve had two major economic systems prior to capitalism.

          • @Pilferjinx
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            02 months ago

            I’d be open to a bottom-up communist-like path of change. I’ve given it some thought but haven’t come up with anything viable that doesn’t easily succumb to corruption.

            • Cowbee [he/him]
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              What do you mean “bottom-up Communist-like path to change?” What’s wrong with a democratic worker state?

                  • @Pilferjinx
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                    02 months ago

                    That interesting. How does one fund a campaign? How far vertical does a communist state go. How much power do those positions have? Seems like we just end up where we are now.

        • @[email protected]
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          152 months ago

          “how dare u criticize slavery when u eat the food the master gives u sleep in the barracks the master owns and works the masters fields u have no legs to stand on”

          • @[email protected]
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            2 months ago

            It’s a good meme, but in all seriousness, why do you think that without capitalism everyone will stop eating meat, driving cars, taking vacations, and having children?

            Would we all be hemp-wearing, bicycle-riding vegans if not for capitalism? Unless people are willing to dramatically reduce their quality of life, we are fucked.

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              22 months ago

              reality is that the disproportionate consumption of the rich far outweighs the consumption of the working people but even putting aside the easy gains of no more private jets and the like, there are things we do and buy that dont even make us happy and are terrible for the planet and often for our bodies like cars. The real question is why people would buy tons of useless garbage they dont want nor need and ultimately dont even use in a society were people arent flooded with propaganda to buy said shit all the time and in a society were ur ability to consume isnt the only measure of a persons worth. And that not even saying anything about repeatability and planned obsolescence.

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                Why would people buy tons of useless garbage

                Meat, cars, houses, fresh water, cell phones. That is the top of that list of ecological depredation. Billionaires for all their evil aren’t the ones eating over 50 billion animals per year. Yeah you read that right. It’s a large number.

                reality is that the disproportionate consumption of the rich far outweighs the consumption of the working people

                Unless by “rich” you mean “middle class Americans” you’re mathematically wrong by many orders of magnitude.

                Now I’m down to kill the billionaires, very eager, but it won’t solve our ecological woes. Not even close.