• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    you just described capitalism though.

    literally, at its core, the idea that ownership is what provides value-not labor or the soil or whatever.

    literally veneration of big money over everything else.

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      5 months ago

      That is where I think a lot of people get it wrong…I am describing centralization and it takes many forms across many political and economic systems.

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          5 months ago

          You said I just described capitalism and I agree, but really am describing centralization of which capitalism is just only one of many centralized systems that lead to poor outcomes for society if not managed carefully. I see a lot of people blaming capitalism and point to other centralized systems as the solution when they are really just more of the same. People are greedy.

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        5 months ago

        you talk a lot about the conditions of a system that takes a staggering amount of maintenance as if they’re a natural unavoidable absolute of humanity.

        then use that to imply that any of what’s currently going on addresses any of these problems in a way anyone who isn’t high (and apparently some of us who are) would ever accept.

        its not convincing.