• Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People that are blindly anti-capitalism and pro something else (usually social/communism) tend to justify their feelings by saying that all of human weakness (greed, corruption, laziness) are the fault of capitalism.

    People that are blindly pro-capitalism tend to blame all the failures of capitalism on regulation.

    Really, all the failures of all our systems seem to be that humans are greedy, selfish creatures. And regulation is the (only?) thing that governs human weaknesses.

    MAYBE, if we manage to generate a post-scarcity world, we’ll be able to manage that greed problem. I definitely experience feelings of kindness and generosity with my friends, family, or in times/places where I’m not stressed/rushed/feeling scarcity.

    But I don’t know how pathetic, greedy humans ever generate a post scarcity world.

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      1 year ago

      People that are blindly pro-capitalism tend to blame all the failures of capitalism on regulation.

      I’m “blindly pro-capitalism” and I blame it on perverse incentives and unaddressed externalities.