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Lourdes
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« on: October 13, 2018, 03:26:30 PM »

No. It's not only an inherently unfair, exploitative, and authoritarian socio-economic system, but it's unsustainable on a planet with finite resources, an incredibly fragile climate and ecosystem, and the tendency to exacerbate the worst aspects of humanity (greed).

This is the biggest thing that people don't realize.

Let's see how well Capitalism works in predominantly first-world countries if you take all the borderline slave labor in Asia, the environmental destruction in Africa, etc. for the gain of the Global north and and put it in those regions.

The biggest propaganda of Capitalism is that it's possible to earn gigantic sums of wealth in excess of the billions.

No one can earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

No one can earn billions of dollars.

The only way a single person can accumulate such a gigantic sum of money is by exploitation and taking away from others. People are only able to have so much because they are actively making sure that those below them have so little. And what's worse is that capitalism tricks people into viewing this positively. Whoever can find the most convenient way to exploit people and land, eploiting wealth is called "genius", etc.

Capitalism is at its core about abuse, about exploitation, etc.

It promotes the false idea that some are naturally going to have less and some are naturally going to have more, while implying that the more you have, the better you are, while silencing its victims with labels like "lazy", etc.

Capitalism is the worst system to have ever ravished and is currently destroying the world.
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Lourdes
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« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2018, 05:09:19 PM »

It promotes the false idea that some are naturally going to have less and some are naturally going to have more,
how is this a false idea?  Some bears in the wild eat and live better than other bears in the wild...because nature gave them more.  Sometimes nature gave them a better environment, with more game and fewer humans and other rival predators.  Sometimes nature gave them faster legs or better eyes or a slightly darker coat that made them better.  Some living things are going to have it better than others.  This is fact.  It happens to ants, it happens to gophers and it happened to humans 250k years ago and it happens to humans today.  Does it suck if you're a lesser?  Of course, but being a lesser human is way better than being a lesser ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD....'cause those things just die.  Humans, the better of us at least, take care of each other, unlike any other species in the world.  Because we are special.  Maybe other animals would too if they could (and certainly some individual animals do), but right now, only humans shed tears for what happens to other humans that they never met, that don't look like them, that pray to another stupid fake thing in the sky and live 10000 miles away.  Hell, we shed tears because animals suffer. Sure, sometimes we do it while we stuff a chicken leg in our mouths....we're funking complicated! Smiley

How are people who inherit millions of dollars working hard to get that? Isn't that, by definition, unearned wealth? Why is the idea of giving poor people healthcare, shelter or even education seen as a gross display of unearned wealth and gluttony, when there are multimillionaires that can receive more than you or I can earn in several lifetimes simply by being born?

When there exist billionaires that can basically buy entire countries because of unearned wealth, it seems bizarre to not want to punch up, but instead punch down at people who want things as basic as not dying because of chest pain or the right to not have to sleep on dirt. Surely the latter is especially insidious in countries like America where there exist more houses that homeless people and yet homelessness is still an issue.
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