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This sounds like the kind of whataboutism you'd encounter on any thread negatively countering China, but it isn't. This is an uncontroversial fact about capital
by kuzehanka 7y ago
This sounds like the kind of whataboutism you'd encounter on any thread negatively countering China, but it isn't. This is an uncontroversial fact about capitalism that Adam Smith covered before capitalism even emerged as a concept.
The goal of capitalism is to maximize production output. Everything else is peripheral. Maybe it's a hard truth to come to grips with, but that is what we need to do in order to move forward on resolving today's issues.
- vertline3 7y agoThis whole thread derails from the topic of American CBS censorship, so it sort of did fall into a whataboutism type of distraction cycle. Theoretically capitalist companies that are censoring important content can be pressured with boycotts over censorship, though I'm not sure how feasible that is here.
- kuzehanka 7y ago> This whole thread derails from the topic of censorship Or highlights the relationship between capitalism and censorship when the capital is held by a totalitarian state? China has quietly sat and waited for the last 50 years while they accrued capital. Now they have it, and they're using it to take control of the same incentive systems that created the developed world. Ignoring the threat that's posed, or ignoring the weakness of those incentive systems is going to be fatal to the ideologies that China has targeted.
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- zouhair 7y agoNo, Capitalism is about making profits. Raising production or lowering it can both be used to make profits.