• Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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    11 hours ago

    There are good criticisms of other economic systems that have been tried, but capitalism really seems designed to transfer the most power and resources to the greediest and least ethical.

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      11 hours ago

      No but you don’t understand.

      Capitalism works because it pits everyone against each other and so even though every single person is greedy and unethical, they begrudgingly improve society overall because of reasons.

      All we have to do is make sure we teach every child that all humans are fundamentally greedy and evil and the only ethical response is to out-greedy and out-evil them.

      And then we’ll have a prosperous society!

      • Adam Smith basically