• Christian
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t remember where I read this quote originally and I can only paraphrase it, but observing people living in a capitalist society and concluding that human nature is self-centeredness and greed is equivalent to observing workers in a factory that is poisoning their lungs and concluding that human nature is to cough.

    • Bademantel@lemmy.world
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      44 minutes ago

      That’s a nice quote, thank you. I looked into it. It’s by Andrew Collier:

      To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        38 minutes ago

        Primary goal is to survive in the environment you are in, how many might have a desire to escape that environment but lack the ability to do so? Leave it all behind and live in a cabin in the woods isn’t exactly an unheard of idea.