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It's not a contradiction. Our system rewards, promotes, glorifies unremitting greed, yet the average person is still not a profit-maximising fiend, with at leas
by andrepd 7y ago
It's not a contradiction. Our system rewards, promotes, glorifies unremitting greed, yet the average person is still not a profit-maximising fiend, with at least some considerations of morality, altruism, etc. This only contradicts the above thesis that humans are inherently greedy and selfish and capitalism merely mirrors (rather than promotes) this.
- daenz 7y agoYou said above that most people will do as the system rewards. Do you not see the contradiction? Let me make it very clear: 1) The current system rewards greed 2) Most people will do as the system rewards 3) Most people are not greedy One of those points is wrong.