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It's important to remember we are doing it for glorious purpose:
From what the capitalists and their non-wealthy sycophants tell me, this is the only way, and we should stop complaining as they end the world to see who can get th highest ego score.
But you don't understand, doing literally the bare minimum would mean 150 people only have 50,000,000x the average persons net worth instead of 100,000,000x!
And ~~I'll never be allowed to be in their club since they all work to make sure poors stay poors~~ someday I might be one of them, so clearly I must defend this to the death of me and all my family and their children.
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That’s horrifying. The only choice is not to play.
This isn't even a recent comic, it is old. We know about this for so long already, it is depressing.
We've been knowingly on the path to self-destruction for half a century.
It's just become increasingly difficult to engage in self-delusion about it as the consequences become apparent.
This is why I'm past hope.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_propaganda
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
https://truthout.org/articles/pedagogy-for-profit-education-under-capitalism/
The capitalists own major media, the capitalists influence curriculum, as they've captured the state governments that set them, from K-Colleges of Economics to say "free market" capitalism is the only way kiddies. It indoctrinates millions of non-wealthy Americans to advocate against their own interests. Hi.
They use their power over government not only to deregulate their own industries for profit, but to defund social supports and then use their media to shriek "see how government doesn't work?! Privatize everything!"
You can sing the praises of capitalism if you want, but capitalism not straight jacketed/draconianly regulated is a social blight that removes all humanity from society. A society shouldn't be in service to an economy, an economy should be a lowly tool to distribute goods and services for the benefit of society.
That's fine. Our trajectory is pretty well set anyway. We'll keep insisting more growth/metastasis is the solution for the consequences of reckless growth/metastasis.
Have fun blaming everything except the root cause on the way down.
There are many.
So many alternatives to capitalism.
You’re not worth the time.
Great advice. Maybe I’ll give Das Kapital a try.
I did some research and couldn’t discern if the author was a classical economist, or a proponent of Keynesian or neo-Keynesian economics. Regardless, until the “invisible hand” remedies poverty from wealth inequality and homelessness nonexistent; I’ll stick with Marxism.
It is ideal to me. Overconsumption and Climate Change. Something’s going to give. And Mother Nature doesn’t bank at Wells Fargo.
Good luck short-selling during the water wars.
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So many alternatives
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I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Technology and science is pushing humanity forward.
And despite capitalists claims, it's the government supplying both, not the corporations.
Take billions in public funding, sell the result for profit, claim no one else could do that and no alternative exists.
Tale as old as time.
Actually it was my economics classes in university that highlighted how bad things are and how corporations need to be highly regulated. Even the professor who attempted to show us we couldn't regulate corporations and thus shouldn't try used a simulation that made it apparent corporations would strip the land and ocean of everything if they could.
It definitely depends on the university you go to, there's ideological differences in economic schools of thought. But the observed science is very simple and repeatedly proves demand driven programs at the bottom of an economy are far more powerful than supply driven programs at the top.
https://wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/centerpiece/fall2018/transcript_jodidi11-5-2018
It's worth the read. I promise.
Great read. I’m bookmarking this. Thanks.
There are so many engrained assumptions here that would take a long time to undo, a lot of reading, and they take a long time to digest. I went through the journey, and thought like this once, until I realised there was a lot more to this than this narrative that is classically taught. I'm sorry. We should leave it here, maybe you'll find it eventually. I appreciate your consideration of the text. It's a good starting place. Ps, I was not the one who down voted.
I wouldn't call what has been tried communism as it was never a dictatorship of the proletariat, but I'm not convinced by orthodox communism either. That is also missing a whole lot of geopolitical nuance to what actually happened. Either way, what we have isn't working and it's time to find something new. Lemmy isn't a good place for theory anyway, not that any other social media is much better.
Lemmy is a great place for theory.
They will be born of need, when things break down. Such is the way of these things.