I’m sorry to ask this, but do you understand how all of these relate to capitalism? Do you understand how most if not all of these are byproducts of capitalism and THRIVE within it? Do you understand- that whatever precursor to western capitalism enforced these - https://twitter.com/ticarl02/status/1249070478943293448
Was also a form of system that was based on the exploitation of a lower/class group and capitalism expanded on that.....you understand this right?
Capitalism literally does not exist without any of these things being either a factor, or a cause. Eventually all capitalism will resort to one of these to survive. This isn’t greed, it’s the purpose. That’s why it’s there.
You need profit. To maximize your profit you need to be able maximize the labor you get from your workers, while adjusting their income so it doesn’t change so that no matter what, their labor still gives you a great amount of profit. Eventually you’re exploitating people —
Slavery was literally mass exploitation. Free, cheap labor. And then, in order to make sure no one allied with them, you need to allocate benefits to staying in your place. So you allocate privileges to people above them, make them think their complicity is an investment into —
THEIR future. And if that doesn’t work, you dehumanize your lowest workers so that no one thinks them human or worthy so no one will sit and think, they deserve to be fought for or deserve help. You let a few slip the cracks and then preach that none of this is terrible
Capitalism doesn’t exist without the things you and I mentioned and if they’re greed then capitalism doesn’t exist without greed bc essentially capitalism IS about making money
And if you believe that capitalism is this fairytale they told you in 11th grade history and government then I really don’t know what to tell you
Not to@mention how industrialization made capitalism all the more harmful to the earth. How capitalism that you claim works unless people are greedy, reinvented itself throughout activist movements, to make CAPITAL off said movements. Everything under capitalism becomes a
tool to enrich the rich. That’s why the rich are such small percentage, and the poor literally such vast number. BECAUSE capitalism enriches the rich and keeps the poor poor.
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