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[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 7 points 7 hours ago

And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange

Yes unfortunately so. If the system values profit over life, then profit will always be the priority. Even if that leads to (and encourages) acts of inhumanity.

[-] mathemachristian 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The reason the system values profit over life is because it requires profit to survive. No profit, no capitalism. This is why the people that keep trying to reform capitalism have failed for almost 200 years now, there is no reforming the profit motive away from capitalism.

Capital does not consist in the fact that accumulated labour serves living labour as a means for new production. It consists in the fact that living labour serves accumulated labour as the means of preserving and multiplying its exchange value.

Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital"

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