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Does #capitalism still deliver, or does it only destroy our living space for #profit?

Anyone who is not completely blind can see the slope is getting steeper. We are like on the Titanic. The iceberg is right ahead. Everyone stares at it like a deer in headlights. Frozen. Or weirdly fascinated. No one moves.

Capitalism does not even need #democracy. It runs just fine in #China. The #rich get richer at breathtaking speed. They gain more power every day. Meanwhile, many people are exploited. Some even go hungry.

#Infrastructure falls apart where it brings no profit. Gains are privatized. Losses are shared by everyone. Capitalism works great for arms races and wars. It also works great for rebuilding after. Only #peace seems to bring too little profit.

#Diseases without profitable drugs are ignored. Human suffering does not always sell well. But social-media #algorithms that shake democracy? Very profitable. Public goods, #privacy, data protection, #ethics — all side characters. Hard to monetize. The #future and sustainability also feel optional when today’s shareholder payout boosts #power and profit.

Why do we believe that people driven by greed and contempt will build a better future? Maybe #humanity does not really care about democracy or ethics. Maybe it only cares about #consumption. Ads promise that buying things will make us #happy. And of course, anyone against capitalism should throw the first #smartphone.

Running water, electricity, full supermarkets — all nice. Until you notice the food is packed with sugar and salt. Fresh fruit and vegetables carry poison. The oceans are overfished. The fish comes with #microplastics as a bonus. Wild animals vanish, pushed out by humans. Only farm animals multiply by the millions. They #suffer. #Nature breaks.

This story does not feel like it has a happy ending. Not if we keep scrolling and call it progress.

#civilization #question #news #system #matrix #politics #economy #business #freedom #mankind #collapse #apocalypse #war #terror #military #crisis #pollution #extinction #emissions #climate #disaster #security #fascism #earth #food #poison #problem

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utopiArte Feb 25

Tag Your Toe wrote:

Capitalism is the worst system, except for all the others we've ever tried.
@TagYourToe
That's actually a sentence about democracy, apparently by Churchill and paraphrased y others.

Paraphrasing it using the term Capitalism is as BS as it can get.
(sry)

Than there is the general BS confusion using the term capitalism as in "freie Marktwirtschaft" and pinpointing it on every nail at sight. That's ultimately just creating international SLOP conversation.

On the Titanic depiction @scriptkiddie and the slope:
We already hit the iceberg, the slop is the inclined deck raising slowly but steady up high into the sky.

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Tag Your Toe Feb 25

@utopiarte None of that is a compelling rebuttal for anyone who knows anything at all about human history pre-Capitalism and its disastrous alternatives that ultimately get abandoned, usually after people get tired of digging mass graves.

Sorry. 🤷‍♂️

define "capitalism"

@utopiarte No thank you, that's a dumb exercise when Google is free.

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utopiArte Feb 25

Hey @TagYourToe,
sounds like you are getting this into the wrong channel, "den falschen Zeh" as germans say.

This is the net so we over here are lot's of people from lot's of different places, back grounds, on all levels and in the broadest meaning of it's sense.

Actually there isn't even use in wikipedia, unless you literally write:
""Capitalism" as defined in wikipedia!"

So "define capitalism" was not mend to mean:
"The definition of #capitalism as in first class of high school and you'll get an "D" or a "good boy! good boy!""
.. at the end of another discussion in the internet where every one is wrong except the genius on the side of the screen that is actually typing, but to say:
"Unless you explain what you mean by "capitalism" what "capitalism" means to you, there is no basis for a reasonable conversation out here.

.. except being right and Besserwisserei, as germans would say ..
(ok here, in that last line, I ran out of [italic])

\\ leans back and tell's @mina that the water for the newly sinchando mate is about to boil.