Gotta start them off young

https://lemmy.world/post/23689245

Gotta start them off young - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Ye the world was a peaceful place before capitalism, there were no wars, no slaves and no …

checks history books

Oh no

Oh no no no no

Scale. It’s about scale and centralization. Sure there were slaves but capitalism made more than ever in human history. Sure there were wars but capitalism made them bigger and further away from the rich nations committing them’s population.

It’s about scale. It’s like comparing a single thief to a crime syndicate of organized thieves and saying “well there has always been thieving”

Yes. But never with so much damage.

Yes. Capitalism is a tool that allows us to scale industry up. Good or bad. Just like fire is indispensable for our society, but if you don’t regulate it properly, it will burn things down.

Capitalism allowed for scaling things up. Assholes got a hold of it first and used it for slavery and wars.

Mmmm, that’s what you say. But take a step outside what you were taught all your life and it is soon revealed as an ideology that you bow down to worship, defend against any criticism, and demand all others bow down to it as well, no matter how they feel, on pain of their total subjugation.

There is a difference between ideology and objective reality.

My goals in life and what I want the world to look like are part of my ideology. Capitalism being a useful tool to achieve them is objective reality.