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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

so many people are getting to the point that they can identify that capitalism has caused human society to self-digest and go to shit, yet so many will give the most asinine dog-brained reasons as to why. It's reassuring to see people starting to wake up but frustrating to see them groggy, incoherent, and still half-asleep. 95 times out of a hundred they'll blame "corporatism" or welfare queens or race mixing or overpopulation or some shit and it's just exhausting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And when they say "corporatism", rather than the capitalist aspects of corporations draining the life from society, they'll instead be referring to whenever a company does something they consider "woke".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a fan of capitalism myself, but I'd take western (somewhat) liberal capitalism over the authoritarian alternatives (kleptocratic, imperialist oligarchy in Russia or fake-communist dictatorship in China) that are being pushed here on Lemmy.

[–] 1847953620 3 points 1 year ago

We're fucking our planet and all its species regardless, and arguing about the amount of lube being used.