I’m still used to thinking that evil people are mostly caused by material factors and their environment, but with all the stuff I’ve been seeing recently, I’m slowly becoming more and more open to the idea that “sometimes evil is just evil”.
I’m still used to thinking that evil people are mostly caused by material factors and their environment, but with all the stuff I’ve been seeing recently, I’m slowly becoming more and more open to the idea that “sometimes evil is just evil”.
Capitalism creates a system in which the most greedy and evil humans will always make it to the top. And the west has created the perfect, and longest running “breeding ground” for it. Near endless resources. A massive tax base to leech from. 100+ years of public propaganda to protect the elites from scrutiny. A mostly docile, uneducated population with just enough rabidly cultish extremists that salivate at murdering people that disagree with said propaganda. It’s all there. Perfect growing conditions for the parasites.
Capitalism rewards greed (or more accurately capital accumulation). It doesn’t reward evil, evil is a side effect of prizing capital accumulation above any moral framework. Like the paperclip maximizer, capitalism is cold, calculating, and without morals, resulting in one thing: maximization of profit.
If, in some parallel universe, the best way to maximize capital accumulation were to ensure well-being for everyone (stay with me here), then that is what the bourgeoisie would do. They are not evil, they are amoral.
Anyone disagreeing with this may want to brush up on the difference between materialism and idealism