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Turns out the real alienation is the artists and athletes, not the workers producing luxury goods. Capitalism is great, it feeds billions, but it shouldn’t be
by erulabs 2y ago
Turns out the real alienation is the artists and athletes, not the workers producing luxury goods.
Capitalism is great, it feeds billions, but it shouldn’t be lost on anyone that we can provide generational wealth to anyone who can produce beans a bit better, while the transcendental has pitiful returns. On one hand, we need beans. On the other, it sure is nice to transcend from time to time.
Over all I think it’s wildly important we’re slanted towards the mundane, but next time you see a poor artist or a talented young athlete: put some money in the hat.
- looneysquash 2y agoTossing a coin to your Witcher is not sufficient to fix our broken capitalism system.
- erulabs 2y agoI think the system that orients us away from our passions and towards the mundane is a good thing actually. It hurts the soul but it nourishes the body. However we should all become patrons of the arts, so that we can also nourish the soul. Ain’t nothing so broken that love can’t fix it.
- foliovision 2y agoBased on the average diet in North America (fast food, oversized portions, GMO vegetables which look good but are nutrition free, hormone overloaded beef, chlorinated chicken, this is the short list), I would argue the system (North American style capitalism does not nourish the body. I'd also apply the same thought to North American arts and sports. Singing about hoes and bling, while clutching your testicles or ring fighting hardly feed the soul. The Olympians should get proper state funding. They do inspire.