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Capitalism is the paywall of life (feddit.de)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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If they could somehow monetize breathing, they would

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[โ€“] Lemmino 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is that greed is an aspect of human nature. You'll never be able to eliminate it. Any system that relies on greed, corruption, and selfishness not existing, will ultimately fail, because that system relies on humans pretending that certain emotions don't exist.

Capitalism is deeply flawed, but it's stability as a system is not predicated on humans trying (and inevitably failing) to delete fundamental human emotions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would even say it is one of the key components of everything we consider life. On the other hand, other components include selflesness, compassion and sacrifice. Denying and of these features leads to disfunctional systems