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Highly recommended Video: "Capitalism is not natural". I would like your thoughts. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/economy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/politics/p/1090319/highly-recommended-video-capitalism-is-not-natural-i-would-like-your-thoughts

Let me start by saying that I thought this interview was great, and highly encourage you to watch it in its entirety and share it with others.

I think a lot of "anti-capitalist" videos and discussions you see are geared towards the people who are already left leaning. But this interview discusses it from an economic perspective, and is communicated in such a clear and pragmatic way, while also being extremely charismatic and interesting to listen to.

I don't mean to upsell this video so much, but I just thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it. If you are a very "pro-capitalist" person, id love to hear your genuine thoughts on the matter (not a debate or argument, just your genuine and well meaning thoughts - as I'm genuinely curious).

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

See thats a good stance, those are good opinions, but they don't oppose capitalism. What you wrote is capitalism, making small adjustments to a capitalist system is not what people like her are promoting. Her ideology is that private ownership itself is a source of evil. She was very clear about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I can hear it that way too. Thanks for sharing your interpretation.

    I guess I'm not so triggered because it looks like the movement is towards change from the current system rather than violently overthrowing it. I hear it as "the current capitalism is bad", somewhere she calls it industrial capitalism. "People can't afford a house over their heads" sounds to me like a goal to make that happen. Perhaps she has a different view on what afford means than I do because it indeed doesn't need to mean possess.

    In today's sensationalist tendencies I half expect people to make quite extreme statements to express even the smallest desire for change.

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