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Why? You’re able to box this out in a customized context (and it is since social political intuition is subjective to one’s experience). It’s important to be a
by canb3 6y ago
Why? You’re able to box this out in a customized context (and it is since social political intuition is subjective to one’s experience).
It’s important to be able to think critically and with nuance, of course, why must avoiding “harming capitalism” when capitalism causes tons of harm across contexts of science and culture, be avoided?
It’s not a person it’s ideological guidelines. Surely jabbing at any ideology as frequently as the public wishes must be tolerated in a free society.
So why the boxing in and protectionism of capitalism at all? Whatever this reality is it’s obviously only moving towards it’s destruction.
Why should clinging to historical emotional objects be a priority of our critical thinking education in a universe smashing itself apart?
Why capitalism? Or Catholicism? Certainly other frameworks would achieve a similar statistical balance of haves versus have nots, since real logistical distribution mirrors monarchism, and other historical hierarchies.
If that’s what we’re going for, why the pretense? Just legislate gamed logistical distribution as a goal. No need for syntactic jargon unless the real goal is obscurantism.
Numbers don’t lie: capitalism is just another generational emotional game, obligation to defer to hierarchy, like the others humanity binned. What’s so important about it?
- zepto 6y agoIs this meant to be a response to me? Why are you talking about ‘not harming capitalism’? What has that got to do with anything?
- deeperthinker 6y agoI do not think you understand capitalism, which can only be done in historical context, and is a misnomer. The actual term is private property rights. Do you believe that if I build a house, the mob either directly or through a central authority should be empowered to take it from me and give it to someone else ? The counterparts to capitalism are feudalism where a small set of people - the aristocrats are empowered to take resources from everyone else, or communism where the state is empowered to do the same, or some version of socialism where the general public is. The important thing about capitalism is you have rights to your own resources and no one , absolutely no one should be able to take it from one without assent. Assent to taxes is a different beast because there is a social contract between government and people to provide common goods which either are too expensive for individuals to provide themselves or the returns from investments are public like basic education is a requirement for a cohesive society and understanding of basic democratic concepts through the spread of education, so this is a public good that taxation should be used for, others include national defense, impartial judiciary, policing, transportation networks, public regulation.