• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Give it up. These people are living the benefits of a century of capitalism. Now that it’s going down the shitter, the idea has, somehow, always been evil.

    I figure it’s a bunch of kids who haven’t got the notion that any form of economy is, has and will be corrupted by humans.

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      Global capitalism is a very, very, very recent occurrence historically.

      We went from a merchant-style sort of economy to capitalism almost overnight.

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        1 year ago

        And in this merchant-style sort of economy, the rich weren’t an order of magnitude richer than the poor, and profiting off their backs?

        FFS, monkeys quickly figure out how to trade “money” for sex. World’s oldest profession anyone? We’re no different. Capitalism just perfected it.

        Capitalism is just dandy, with some serious government oversight. Problem being, how do you stop the overseers from getting rich legislating the oversight? Same problem in any economic policy.

        Kinda funny thought I had in my 20’s. The only way to truly get rich is by getting other people working for you. Never pursued that line of work, just not me, can’t do it. But it’s still true and always will be, no matter the economics.