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I had an argument with a ‘capitalism breeds innovation’ bro and when I asked them if the reverse could be true, meaning that innovation that hurts certain branches of capital will be surpressed, he suddenly looked confused.
Defending capitalism is just so full of flaws that I wonder how these people can even believe themselves.
The same goes for ‘efficiency’ while billions of dollars get spend on advertisements, lobbying, avoiding taxes etc. For once I just want to have a capitalist defender walk through all point they mention just to see where they will end up.
cough smoking causing lung cancer research cough
Tell him: I’m capitalism and u r innovation.
Don’t mind me just saving this comment bcs its a cool argument
If you want some examples to give strength to your argument:
look at green energy. It is for the better of society that we all transition to renewable energy yet current oil and energycompanies try everything they can to slow this process.
farming of cattle. Cows are a really big producer of methane gas. Innovation for the better of society would mean reducing the amount of cows kept for the meat and diary industry. Innovation that is happening now, in favor of this industry, is giving cows mask to captured their burbs so that gas output gets captured. It does not tackle the problem the large amount of cattle brings.
There are more but people tend to are the point after you mention these two.
Another huge one: planned obsolescence.
Yeah, they’re innovating alright. Innovating new and fantastical ways of completely wasting resources and people’s time.
If they have planned obsolescence; then they know exactly how fsr they can push a tech til a new one is necessary. Why is it better and an improvement under capitalism to drip feed innovation to its apex?