• kadu@scribe.disroot.org
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    14 hours ago

    Capitalism isn’t bad. It’s what humans do with them that is bad. Don’t be a greedy dick and they would all work fine.

    Capitalism demands greed and infinite growth in a finite and resource-limited world. It’s inherently contradictory, regardless of your ethics.

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      13 hours ago

      They’re all just finely tuned creations from whoever is in charge. They can be all of those things, or none of them.

      In the end, it’s been oligarchs everywhere, so far.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Any ideal stretched to ‘black and white’ is going to go badly, just differing on what startegies the ‘winners’ must employ to game the system.

      To the ‘infinite growth’, that’s actually possible, because we define ‘growth’ with this currency abstraction and with a whiff of inflation, the numbers can grow without end, satisfiying the “must do better than last year” itch while being able to stay level or even ertract in practical terms.