• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    But it doesn’t do that. It motivates people to exploit, and we only get stuff as a side effect of scams. As the scams get more efficient, less stuff is produced, and all of it sucks more. It’s a system that literally runs on vice, but needs moral safeguards to function; it has a limited life even if you’re completely charitable to the idea.

    Also, an attack on ((a straw man of) centralist authoritarian) communism is not a defense of capitalism.