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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
@icetoad.eth
Exactly
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
@deanpierce.eth
There's this weird strawman version of capitalism used by Marx that many still cling to, and which seems to have completely ruined any discussions around financial incentives. For some reason it irritates me a lot when people argue about a word, but they have completely different definitions of the word 😅 "Greed" and "capitalism" are not synonymous. Capitalist mechanisms can (and should!) exist without greed as a primary driver. Marx was absolutely correct in calling out capitalism as being easily co-opted by the greedy, but when the word capitalism is used as a stand-in for the word greed, it really just makes the conversation more confusing and difficult. The word "capitalism" is now broken and useless and IMO people should stop using it, unless they very explicitly define it first.
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
@icetoad.eth
Humans are greedy by nature and capitalism facilitates unbridled greed.
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callum
@csmit
Greed, capitalism… whatever it is it must be smashed to prevent mass extinction, and I think a lot of socialist doctrines can offer us alternative production systems while we try not to sprint off a cliff
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Draiælle
@drai
Capitalism was, afaik, free competition to make the best product/thing at the best price.. but people don't like competition once they're on top, so we don't really have capitalism? Since at least the 80s? No idea All we have is manipulation and control nowadays, spewing everywhere, unless you learn to tune it out
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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In the context of environmental destruction is comment is completely apt. Capitalism can only continue if more and more resources are consumed.
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