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>The entire raison d'être of capitalism is to provide the highest quality goods and services for the lowest cost. Quality is absolutely _not_ of paramount inte
by cholantesh 2y ago
>The entire raison d'être of capitalism is to provide the highest quality goods and services for the lowest cost.
Quality is absolutely _not_ of paramount interest in capitalism; return on investment is.
- kerkeslager 2y agoIf that's your argument that capitalism should exist, it's not a persuasive one: why should people be given money for doing nothing ("investing")?
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- cholantesh 2y agoI'm not making any kind of argument, I'm simply describing capitalism as it is.
- kerkeslager 2y agoUgh. This is why the left can't get anything done--we're always getting divided over irrelevant details. Do you see how maybe that isn't a disagreement with what I said? You just jumping in to "correct" me without making any effort to understand what I'm saying is extremely counterproductive. Hint: maybe Google "raison d'être".
- cholantesh 2y agoI've been speaking French at an intermediate level for a couple of decades, but thanks. I'm happy to expand my critique to how your arguments all individualize responsibility for a systemic issue that requires targeted collective action and social transformation. This is not leftist strategy.
- kerkeslager 2y ago> I've been speaking French at an intermediate level for a couple of decades, but thanks. I didn't ask you to speak French, I asked you to put in any effort at all to understand what I said. Unsurprisingly, speaking has not conferred any understanding of what I said--you might try reading instead of speaking. > I'm happy to expand my critique to how your arguments all individualize responsibility for a systemic issue that requires targeted collective action and social transformation. Case in point: I'm puzzled where in my post you think I mentioned who I hold responsible for consumerism. It's certainly not individuals. But again, to know what I think you'd have to try to understand what I say. > This is not leftist strategy. Speaking as if you know what I think was bold, speaking for the entire left was bolder.
- cholantesh 2y agoThere is zero advocacy for systemic change here, just lecturing individuals to adopt solutions that only present themselves as choices to the privileged, to say nothing about the gobbledygook about 'guarding your psyche' by 'abstaining' from viewing ads. None of this sounds like leftism, just liberal idealism. Not especially bold to know what one is talking about, but thx.
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- noncoml 2y agoWhich if anything has exactly the opposite effect than what GP is claiming; sell the lowest quality goods and services(i.e. lowest cost) at the highest price possible.
- cholantesh 2y agoYes, exactly, as well as rent-seeking behaviour.