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[–] warm@kbin.earth -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don't live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn't mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I'll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I'm sorry. You're going to stress yourself out.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

No, capitalism is selfish by nature, it makes and promotes people to be selfish. People are genetically altruistic and cooperative. Things, and ownership, and selfishness, is what makes society bad.

You are looking far too shallow into it, and you will stay a slave to that paradigm.

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[–] warm@kbin.earth 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

How do you think we ended up with capitalism

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago

I think a select few extremely narcissistic, cynical, and nihilistic psychopaths used their inherited power to institute and entrench a form of resource distribution and valuation that would secure their dynastic succession for centuries and millennia.

People are altruistic, that's why capitalism even works in the first place- in order to compete, we absolutely need to be able to cooperate, if at the very least to all agree on the framework within which we will compete in the first place, to agree on the rules by which we will play. Please do note, the ostensible motivation and raison d'etre of capitalism is that it is the system which will bring about the greatest good for all participants.

Allegedly.

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