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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/politics/p/1090319/highly-recommended-video-capitalism-is-not-natural-i-would-like-your-thoughts

Let me start by saying that I thought this interview was great, and highly encourage you to watch it in its entirety and share it with others.

I think a lot of “anti-capitalist” videos and discussions you see are geared towards the people who are already left leaning. But this interview discusses it from an economic perspective, and is communicated in such a clear and pragmatic way, while also being extremely charismatic and interesting to listen to.

I don’t mean to upsell this video so much, but I just thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it. If you are a very “pro-capitalist” person, id love to hear your genuine thoughts on the matter (not a debate or argument, just your genuine and well meaning thoughts - as I’m genuinely curious).

  • madnificent
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    2 months ago

    If I looked at the video and interpreted in the most positive way, I did not hear that.

    I understood taxation should be distributed differently in her view, the resulting funds should be distributed differently, and that people should be able own a house and have food. She clearly wants shared housing (but that was a side track and it could be fractional ownership I suppose but you could hear a different thing too).

    She also seems to hold the opinion that capital is overvalued in the current system and work is undervalued. I guess that’s hard to say, a person without any tools will not be able to build a truck so I reason machines are quite an important part of the mix. But maybe the logical contribution of capital should be disconnected from its societal value. We could tax capital a bit more and work a bit less, for instance.

    I’m no professor in economics or anything and she’s only one of them, so perhaps the current situation is perfect, but I do feel wealth distribution is a bit skewed today.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
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      2 months ago

      See thats a good stance, those are good opinions, but they don’t oppose capitalism. What you wrote is capitalism, making small adjustments to a capitalist system is not what people like her are promoting. Her ideology is that private ownership itself is a source of evil. She was very clear about it.

      • madnificent
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I can hear it that way too. Thanks for sharing your interpretation.

        I guess I’m not so triggered because it looks like the movement is towards change from the current system rather than violently overthrowing it. I hear it as “the current capitalism is bad”, somewhere she calls it industrial capitalism. “People can’t afford a house over their heads” sounds to me like a goal to make that happen. Perhaps she has a different view on what afford means than I do because it indeed doesn’t need to mean possess.

        In today’s sensationalist tendencies I half expect people to make quite extreme statements to express even the smallest desire for change.