Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2023

My biggest problem with #capitalism is that it forces everyone to make earning money their primary objective.

Not to provide valuable services for society.
Not to make sure that people don't suffer.
Not to preserve our environment.

All these things are just optional side effects to the main objective of making money, and will be easily discarded if doing the opposite turns out to be more lucrative.

Show threadTimeJun 15, 2023
@ainmosni I think this is the primary problem with capitalism in general. It’s profits over everything. Over people (which I am including things like food, water, and healthcare), over animals, over earth/the environment, over the common good. Capitalism is dangerously self-centered. And I truly believe that the past few decades have shown us that capitalism is terrible in the long run. It’s shown us that it’s terrible long-term, but the message hasn’t been heeded by the majority.
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@ainmosni I think people assume that business and innovation can’t exist in a more socialistic society, which is inexplicably false. I also think that people assume that socialism and communism are equivalent, which is also false.

Business can exist in socialism, innovation can happen in socialism. The idea is that profits are not the main focus and that helping society (and hopefully the environment) are more important than money.

Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈
@timecraft Add to that that many (most?) of the world changing innovations came from government projects, projects that were started for other reasons than "to make money".
Jun 15, 2023 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadTimeJun 15, 2023
@ainmosni my personal favorite are all of the things that were invented/refined through NASA programs (which is governmental non-military!) that have drastically affected our lives today. Innovation is not exclusive to just making money! Sometimes we make great things simply because we want to improve the lives of ourselves or others, or through the pursuance of scientific discovery, not profits!
Show threadDaniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈Jun 15, 2023
@timecraft That, and a huge amount of the healthcare breakthroughs originate in universities and are then gobbled up by pharma companies.