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What I find interesting is how people literally cannot see any alternative besides, "This is just the way capitalism works", which implicitly acknowledges "capi
by imknewhere 4y ago
What I find interesting is how people literally cannot see any alternative besides, "This is just the way capitalism works", which implicitly acknowledges "capitalism is the only way it can work".
- exceptione 4y agoSpot on. Our thinking on these matters is more adherence to faith than reason. We are stuck in a collective meme. A belief system that centers around human well being sounds more reasonable than *unbounded* capitalism. We know it, we don't know what to do with it.
- mallvinegar 4y agoReminds me of this quote from Mark Fisher: "Observing humans under capitalism and concluding it's only in our nature to be greedy is like observing humans under water and concluding it's only in our nature to drown."