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Capitalism is the paywall of life (feddit.de)
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If they could somehow monetize breathing, they would

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[–] Lemmino -4 points 1 year ago

Any system dealing with human nature will always be inherently flawed. The fact is, in over 250,000 years of our species existing, our technological prowess only really exploded once the concepts of money and trade were invented. Regulate these properly, and you have an incredibly powerful industrial machine that will improve everyone's lives.