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Because unregulated capitalism is just property and trading. Hard to imagine sentient beings without the concept of property and trading. You have to kill all
by jokethrowaway 3y ago
Because unregulated capitalism is just property and trading.
Hard to imagine sentient beings without the concept of property and trading.
You have to kill all humans to end capitalism.
What everybody hates is crony capitalism where business leverage their government connections to screw everyone - but that's just socialism with extra steps.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoIt's a massive error to conflate capitalism and commerce like this. Capitalism describes a specific structure of organizing ownership of productive resources and allocating their surpluses. Capitalism is not the only thing that exists nor is it inevitable. It's not hard to imagine systems with property and trading that use another method of allocation. In fact such systems do exist both in history and currently.
- thefaux 3y agoI don't think capitalism and the concepts of property and trade are synonyms. It is also not clear that historical understandings of property or trade or universal amongst human civilizations and I'd be wary of dismissing other civilizations as having been made up of unsentient beings.
- keybored 3y agoWhat is water, the fish asked.
- int_19h 3y agoProperty and trading existed for most of the history of humanity, but capitalism is a much more recent phenomenon. Capitalism specifically requires private property rights on capital (i.e. means of production) - hence the name. And it requires those rights to be unrestricted in a sense that anyone can freely trade capital, and thus it is possible to amass and concentrate it, thereby creating a class of those who have it distinct from those who do not, which in turn allows the former to collect economic rent from the productive work of the latter.