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A beloved Terry Pratchett character defines evil as when you treat people like things.
by sollewitt 2y ago
A beloved Terry Pratchett character defines evil as when you treat people like things.
- euroderf 2y agoWell then, that's pretty much an indictment of capitalism.
- mrkstu 2y agoCommunism doesn't fare any better under that rubric. Any unbridled 'ism' taken to its extreme tends to fail most human centered tests.
- croisillon 2y agoLike athletism for example?
- cyberax 2y agoAbsolutely. See: doping, steroids.
- joquarky 2y agoThe middle way requires an understanding of nuance that humanity seems to be unwilling to invest in.
- croes 2y agoStaff department vs Human Resources
- lostlogin 2y ago> an indictment of capitalism. Capitalism is the least bad system we have tried.
- yoyohello13 2y agoTherefore we should never talk bad about it or look in to alternatives.
- otherme123 2y ago[flagged]
- makeitdouble 2y agoWho is "we" ? How many systems has "we" actually experienced first hand, and were the results such as you report them ?
- oneshtein 2y ago"We" - humanity. "We" actually experienced all social systems "we" invented so far, which are allowed by "our" productivity.
- makeitdouble 2y agoHumanity did fine with other systems that capitalism. Hunter gather societies were well adapted to their environments, Tibetan monks dealt with human relations differently etc. It would be crazy to assume that the whole humanity longs for capitalism whatever their situation or belief system, the same way _we_ don't assume any current form of capitalism is specially superior to other alternative forms that could better benefit our situations.
- TylerE 2y agoI can think of at least one (Northern European style Socialism) that is better to live under via virtually any metric for 99.99% of people - and that includes the majority of users of this site that think they are some sort of tech unicorn. Just not having insurance tied to employment would be such a massive win.
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- daedrdev 2y agoThis is an indictment if bad leaders and politics, which also happens under other economic systems as we have clearly seen
- oneshtein 2y agoYep. Just look at countries with unbounded capitalism, like Russian Federation after fall of Soviet Union. It was a mess. Developed countries installs thousands of regulations (100k - 2M regulatory acts per developed country) on top of wild capitalism to tame it. However, even heavily regulated liberal capitalism is better than other systems.
- m463 2y agoso, anthropomorphism to be safe?
- icameron 2y agoJackie Treehorn treats object like women, man!
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- vintermann 2y agoSounds also a lot like the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative.
- esalman 2y agoUS government is used to doing this with non-us persons. I guess that's partly why there's no real pushback against this practice this time.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoFascism being colonialism returned home was a big lesson from the middle of the 20th century that not enough people learned.