• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yes. Capitalism is a tool that allows us to scale industry up. Good or bad. Just like fire is indispensable for our society, but if you don’t regulate it properly, it will burn things down.

    Capitalism allowed for scaling things up. Assholes got a hold of it first and used it to scale up slavery and wars. Doesn’t mean it is inherently evil.

    Sure, it is an imperfect and dangerous tool, but by far the best we have.

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      5 days ago

      Mmmm, that’s what you say. But take a step outside what you were taught all your life and it is soon revealed as an ideology that you bow down to worship, defend against any criticism, and demand all others bow down to it as well, no matter how they feel, on pain of their total subjugation.

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        5 days ago

        There is a difference between ideology and objective reality.

        My goals in life and what I want the world to look like are part of my ideology. Capitalism being a useful tool to achieve them is (or isn’t, if I am wrong) objective reality.