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It's the exact same thing and every bit as shitty. As long as we- as a society, allow people to prey (read- profit) off other people it will remain this way.
by effingwewt 3y ago
It's the exact same thing and every bit as shitty.
As long as we- as a society, allow people to prey (read- profit) off other people it will remain this way.
I believe more and more of us are not OK with this, but it doesn't matter.
The problem is that the people with the money have the power to keep things as they are.
Voting doesn't work, they lobby and own our government.
We need a new way of doing things.
- analognoise 3y agoI wrote much, much longer comment that said basically this. I am not okay with this, and I noticed that people just say "Well it's better than starving" like that's the obvious other choice. I don't think it is - we could get rid of the system that causes this, or modify it somehow. There are too many people who just can't see past the system at all. It's like Newspeak where they can't even form a thought that the system could be at fault.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoIt's because it's not the system that causes this. Life causes this. There was a time not that long ago where every human born on this earth had to claw through the mud day in and day out to scrape together survival. A lot of people still live this way, as do all wild animals, and it was like this for all of time before, for every living creature on this earth. This is the nature of life. The system you talk about has created a world where a lot of humans, the majority of them and more humans than even existed 100 years ago, do not have to claw their way to survival until the fateful day they fail. That's not to say it still isn't hard to survive, but it is not as hard for most people as the natural state. I'd like a world too where nobody has to suffer indignity to feed themselves, but that world requires more of what we have created, not less.