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Oh no, won't someone think of the businesses?

neom 5y ago
Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward, so yes, till that changes, do think of the business imo.
- antihero 5y ago
  The business does not care about you. The business is fundamentally a sociopathic entity. Only a fool would care about that, unless you have a personal connection to the shareholders.
- skinnymuch 5y ago
  You’re conflating different things. The business doesn’t really care about the person. The west as a whole subscribing to capitalism does not then lead to the things you are saying “if you care about other people”. There is no logic there.
  - neom 5y ago
    There is a stock market, people invest in business. People use those investments to put their kids through schools. Profits are distributed to employees in coops, those funds are used to buy things from other people, etc etc etc etc etc, this moves society forward per the capitalistic philosophy. One individual not being forthcoming with the truth in a system like that, creates inefficiencies in the system, and has ripple effects across the whole system. Butterfly effect. Business is just an implementation of a philosophy, it doesn't care about you, but the idea of business is to care for all, that is the theory and why we use the system. Sadly, it's gotten extremely fucked up over the last 100 years, and we end up with people on reddit doing stuff like this. Capitalism is broken, absolutely, but the redditer is still being intellectually dishonest about the win-win situation.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  > Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. Oh no! Will someone PLEASE think about the multi-millionaire CEOs? > The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward People might claim this, but it's a bullshit bad-faith claim. Capitalism exists for one sole purpose: Create profit. Capitalists will happily destroy the planet if it makes their ticker symbol go up.

neom 5y ago

Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward, so yes, till that changes, do think of the business imo.

antihero 5y ago
The business does not care about you. The business is fundamentally a sociopathic entity. Only a fool would care about that, unless you have a personal connection to the shareholders.
skinnymuch 5y ago
You’re conflating different things. The business doesn’t really care about the person. The west as a whole subscribing to capitalism does not then lead to the things you are saying “if you care about other people”. There is no logic there.
- neom 5y ago
  There is a stock market, people invest in business. People use those investments to put their kids through schools. Profits are distributed to employees in coops, those funds are used to buy things from other people, etc etc etc etc etc, this moves society forward per the capitalistic philosophy. One individual not being forthcoming with the truth in a system like that, creates inefficiencies in the system, and has ripple effects across the whole system. Butterfly effect. Business is just an implementation of a philosophy, it doesn't care about you, but the idea of business is to care for all, that is the theory and why we use the system. Sadly, it's gotten extremely fucked up over the last 100 years, and we end up with people on reddit doing stuff like this. Capitalism is broken, absolutely, but the redditer is still being intellectually dishonest about the win-win situation.
Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> Depends on if you care about other people I suppose. Oh no! Will someone PLEASE think about the multi-millionaire CEOs? > The West subscribes to capitalism as the modality to move society forward People might claim this, but it's a bullshit bad-faith claim. Capitalism exists for one sole purpose: Create profit. Capitalists will happily destroy the planet if it makes their ticker symbol go up.