smell-my-bacon

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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   > These trends seem to be present in every previous society I've ever heard of. The only method I've ever encountered was fictional and fanciful. It's not a binary thing. Among democratic, capitalist societies (meaning lea
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   Capitalism is prevalent not just because it's codified into law, but because, I think, it plays well into innate human tribalism. Especially at the level of our elite cesspools of good ol boys.
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   My carbon to your carbon, my gas to your gas...
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   So what truly matters to the Oil Buddhists?
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   Tweak it so that power and wealth are continuously redistributed to the masses to a large but not huge degree, such that the difference between the haves and have nots are a factor of 10x to 100x, not billions. Educate the hell out of every
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   But did you give your employees bathroom breaks yet?
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   by smell-my-bacon 5y ago

   It's not really fake, it's just mass gambling. Capitalism by speculation isn't good for society, but it's good for those who can afford to take risky bets and always come out ahead in the long run. We have an economy tha