It’s not just capitalism, though. Every other system in place in the world has massive flaws.
Think bigger, my friend.
it often is, but also gotta be carefull to not be reductionist about it. don’t wanna end up with the analysis of “the liberation of x marginalized group has to wait until after capitalism is overthrown and then people somehow suddenly won’t be bigoted anymore”
intersectional feminist analysis sees a cyriarchy of opressive systems, interlinked and upholding each others. they all need to be thought to bring liberation
intersectional feminist analysis sees a cyriarchy of opressive systems, interlinked and upholding each others. they all need to be thought to bring liberation
Jokes aside: I’m aware that there’s more issues than just capitalism and I’m not one of those reductionist that somehow think that eliminating capitalism will solve all problems and must take singular priority above all else.
I try to avoid saying “the problem is capitalism” unless they try to blame something else
Based
Just please don’t be that person that comes when a group of people are trying to work on a small action for a specific problem, throws the “the problem is capitalism, we should be working on abolishing it instead” and goes away, demotivating the people, who end up doing nothing instead.
Oh goodness no, I’m not that person
I’m often times the person in the group arguing with that person.
“Yeah the problem is capitalism but taking incremental steps today to make a better tomorrow will be beneficial to people NOW. Not to mention our steps will help bring more people on board with more of the things required to get them on board with other ideas.”
Glad to hear that! I recently had to deal with that person and I’m still angry over it, sorry
No worries, and same lol
thats because it is. pretty much every major and minor problem in modern society can be directly traced back to some obscenely rich cunt fucking things up for their own benefit. just pick a problem you or someone you know is having, literally any problem, and theres a whole squad of evil ass rich people who made it happen, or made it way way worse than it needed to be. sometimes its subtle and sometimes its so blatant an idiot couldn’t miss it, but the connection is always there. its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.
Every time I see a post or comment by you, i’m like “wow, she’s so based”. I couldn’t have said it better myself :3
I’m having trouble running Outer Wilds through the mod manager because it’s getting the steam install path wrong on linux.
But if it weren’t for capitalism, Linux would be more popular and the mods would work easier.
well if microsoft hadnt been the piece of shit company it was with its half assed bloated buggy inconsistent software for the past 30 years it might not be happening no. theres a reason its taken so long to have reliable windows api emulation on linux and a lot of it is microsoft being an anticonsumer capitalist shithole. like i said the connections are sometimes subtle, but theyre always there. we’ve just been living in this soul crushing system so long people cant see the forest for the trees.
its so depressing sometimes because theres so many people who stubbornly refuse to believe it, even intelligent highly educated people.
Also frustrating when people respond with “well communism is worse!” I’m like that just skipped several important steps. If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution. But just refusing to engage and going full what-about is useless
If we can agree that the current system is Bad, then we can work towards a solution.
ehh, just that things are bad does not mean that they can be made better. consider natural disasters, even if you can evacuate the population before the flood, houses will still be destroyed. you can only mitigate it, not completely solve it. same is for the modern age, i guess. work still had to be done, work sucks -> things suck somehow.
I don’t think natural disasters are a great metaphor. I mean, even as you say you can do some stuff to mitigate flooding.
Often, in the scenario I was describing, it feels like they just accept the flood as inevitable and don’t want to do anything. Build no walls. Dig no drainage. No evacuation. Someone wants to build a dam, and they’re just like “walls?? Like a prison??”
Natural disasters are fine as a metaphor once you realize that we never left the jungle. Other people might be friendly or they might be tigers waiting for you to turn your back before they pounce.
Every utopian makes the same mistake: they see the sleight of hand we call technology and think that makes us different from the warriors who would bash each other’s brains out with clubs, steal all the women, and burn down the village. We’re not. We’re the same damn upright-walking, (mostly) hairless primates we’ve been for the past 300,000 years.
That shit didn’t happen in Australia. There’s very little record of precolonial warfare, especially on the scale you describe. Australian Aboriginal people had an assembly of nations that kept the peace through advanced political mechanisms. Capitalist society is simply far more primitive than Aboriginal hunter gatherer society.
I did that twice in a conversation with strangers today! 😭
The order, named NSPM-7, directs the JTTF and its offices to create a national strategy to “investigate, prosecute, and disrupt entities and individuals engaged in acts of political violence and intimidation” that suppress lawful political activity or obstruct the rule of law.
It highlights “common threads animating this violent conduct,” which it says include “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”
if you question capitalism, you are a “terrorist.” same shit with not being jesusy enough, or not “patriotic” enough.
welcome to fascism.
anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity
that reminds me, when people waged war in the medieval age, they shouted [in german]: “Für Gott, Kaiser, Vaterland” (for god, king, fatherland). which can be directly put in relation to “for christianity, capitalism, america” i think. where capitalism as the system governing economy has replaced the king.
The problem isn’t even capitalism. It’s your culture of a lack of ethics and morals.
i think this culture has ethics and morals. they are
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might makes right (if you are rich and priviledged you can do whatever you wish. if you are poor and marginalized you face scrutiny and opression at every turn)
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maximize profits/power over others
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Both bred and rewarded by capitalism though
yeah it’s kind of a circle. capitalism makes people only care about money, while people only caring about money makes them capitalistic.
Exactly
It’s a vicious circle
Capitalism is a system that does not encourage, and in fact selects against ethics and morals, rather rewarding exploitation (limited to a degree by regulation, hence why they exist). May I ask what precisely you refer to when you say “your culture’s lack of ethics and morals?” particularly which culture, and which ethics and morals.
Because I’d rather blow my load than be American.
that cannot be changed and should never have been expected, it would be like regulating thoughtcrime.
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