ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    4111·
    18 hours ago

    “Pro capitalism” and harm reduction are not the same thing. Some form of capitalist-like economics will exist until we achieve post scarcity economics. The best we can do until then is work towards that end, while also working to minimize the harms imposed by material and labor scarcity.

    This is just another stupid purity test by people who care more about their own righteousness than actual action. You can call my praxis whatever you want. I don’t care.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      233·
      16 hours ago

      We’ve been post-scarcity on a global scale for decades if you count the essentials. We’ve been producing all the food that’s needed to feed the world, and that’s with only 2% of people working on agriculture in the developed world.

      The reason for housing shortages is also due to policy, not because we somehow don’t have the resources and labour to build enough.

    • liyunxiao@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      103·
      14 hours ago

      Capitalism is not a market. Markets have exactly nothing to do with capitalism.

      Capitalism is not only not needed before total post scarcity, it prevents it as capitalism requires artificial scarcity to function.