▲ 725 ▼ Come on y'all. Stop it. (discuss.online) submitted 1 year ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/luigimangione@lemmy.world 160 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (3 children) You're talking about tens of millions of people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) Not at all. I'm talking about a few hundred. Tops. Most people who identify as capitalists aren't. Theyre ideologues who like the idea of capitalism because they think theyll be the one wearing the boot stepping on all our necks one day. They don't own capital. They don't make fortunes leeching off the rest of us. They don't ruin lives or kill thousands via social murder by denying housing, food, or medicine to extract a rent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You think you can destroy capitalism by killing under a thousand people? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children) Not at all. I'm talking about a few hundred. Tops. Most people who identify as capitalists aren't. Theyre ideologues who like the idea of capitalism because they think theyll be the one wearing the boot stepping on all our necks one day. They don't own capital. They don't make fortunes leeching off the rest of us. They don't ruin lives or kill thousands via social murder by denying housing, food, or medicine to extract a rent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You think you can destroy capitalism by killing under a thousand people? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] etuomaala@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) You think you can destroy capitalism by killing under a thousand people? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago No. But it would reign in its worst impulses. Remind the rest that they're mortal. permalink fedilink source parent