• Serinus@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I feel like half of the blame capitalism gets is valid, but the other half is just society. I don’t care what kind of system you’re under, you’re going to have to deal with other people.

      Oh, and if you try the system where you don’t have to deal with people, that just means other people end up handling you.

      • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        I would give this reddit gold

        Instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Capitalism today sound an awful lot like the instant easy complaints help-i’m-oppressed-by-Communism I used to hear from rednecks

        Ask someone who starved & died under either system how obviously superior it is, you will find millions on either side

      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 hours ago

        Could you clarify on what you mean with “dealing with people”? I’m not really sure the point you’re trying to make with that

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        11 hours ago

        It matters a lot though what kind of goal the system incentivises. Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits.

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          1 hour ago

          Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits

          1. Whose happiness and freedom?
          2. How is it to be measured?
          3. Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above

          It’s definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2

        • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 hours ago

          That’s the part people never really seem to understand. It makes sense though because we’re subjected to the system from birth and it’s all a lot of people know so they can’t grasp the idea of a world outside of that so it can sometimes be difficult to get through to people on that

      • Amju Wolf@pawb.social
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        12 hours ago

        In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.

        The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.

      • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol
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        10 hours ago

        The neat part is that anything bad that happens under capitalism is capitalism’s fault, but anything good that happens is actually socialism happening in spite of capitalism, somehow.