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Never underestimate the strength of anti-capitalist sentiment - it's a common thread in issues like this. Even people who should know better, like Tim Bray, ke
by duncan_bayne 6y ago
Never underestimate the strength of anti-capitalist sentiment - it's a common thread in issues like this.
Even people who should know better, like Tim Bray, keep trotting out lines like this:
> So they're gonna get treated like crap, because capitalism.
If you think about it from the perspective of an ideological war against capitalism, certain facts (like people ignoring Amazon driving wages up) start to make more sense.
- uoaei 6y agoI'd like you to demonstrate how capitalism will solve warehouse workers' problems in this scenario.
- duncan_bayne 6y agoI'd like you to demonstrate how that's relevant to my assertion of anti-capitalist bias. (Though for what it's worth, the same way it's solved problems of poverty throughout the world: https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1528 https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1528)