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D_Welch t1_j1zply4 wrote

Reply to comment by XiphosAletheria in Life is a game we play without ever knowing the rules: Camus, absurdist fiction, and the paradoxes of existence. by IAI_Admin

Very well said but Capitalism seems to have a dearth of fans round these parts.

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Funoichi t1_j2057vk wrote

People tend to disapprove of their own exploitation and they ought to.

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D_Welch t1_j20adtw wrote

What you call exploitation others call salvation. There has to be a system free of coercion where two or more people can freely exchange ideas and the fruits of their labour, and this I have always called Capitalism. Anything after that is something else. If you don't wish to call what I just described Capitalism, call it something else then and I shall agree, because it's that system that has brought us out of the dark ages and given us everything.

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Funoichi t1_j20jf1f wrote

Im sure the child workers in the vein of matchstick girl would be super enthusiastic that they had been saved from those awful dark ages.

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D_Welch t1_j21p5vj wrote

Probably actually, as will the hundreds of thousands that no longer die at birth or while giving birth.

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VitriolicViolet t1_j2225sj wrote

>If you don't wish to call what I just described Capitalism, call it something else then and I shall agree, because it's that system that has brought us out of the dark ages and given us everything.

how? it didnt reduce global poverty by 1 billion, fucking China did using the money we paid them.

did capitalism achieve that? if it did then it has also achieved the highest death toll of any system, belief or ideology in human history.

(using the highest possible figures ie including the nazis the ussr killed communism killed 100 million, capitalism has it beaten by several times over easily)

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