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.

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@ainmosni
I think about this all the time. My job is built around using lots and lots of plastic containers that all end up in the ocean somewhere. it breaks my heart and causes me endless anxiety and grief that my only employment options is built on making the world worse.
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@n69n It's not your fault, we're all forced into this shit, because we need to survive, and making money is not optional.

If we knew our food and shelter were insured, we could be more picky about what we'd do with our lives. We could say "well, not working will not kill me, so I'm not going to support this thing I'm having ethical issues with". But the rich and powerful like that we need to work to survive, so they know that they have more power.

Jun 15, 2023 at 5:27pmWeb