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Wall Street has been rewarding morally detached leadership for decades using the language of rationality, math and science. Ask them what their source of morali
by hdgs76 8mo ago
Wall Street has been rewarding morally detached leadership for decades using the language of rationality, math and science. Ask them what their source of morality is and their textbook answer is its mathematically inefficient.
- Psillisp 8mo agoCapitalism's existence is actively turning the screws on humanity. The screws of Meta are a lot more refined than the ones used by the Slave Trade Monopoly of the Dutch West India Company but the screws persist.
- Gormo 8mo agoBut "capitalism" doesn't actually exist as such -- it's just a concept that represents patterns of human behavior that stem from human beings' pre-existing motivations inclinations. Treating descriptive models as the causal factors behind the things they're describing is a reification fallacy.
- pamcake 8mo agoThank you for making it clearer for myself why it irks me when "capitalism" is used this way.
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