★ Amy Star ★capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."
my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"
BeldarakIt's really crazy (and infuriating) when they say this.
Capitalism is not that old. How do they think villages and communities were built and managed before capitalism?
Also, they will often default to the "who will clean the sewers in a socialist world?".
Man, I'd be happy to clean the sewers, on my own terms and schedule if it could prevent me from waking up every single day at dawn to do fuck all in front of a computer for 8 hours :|
Bob Thomson@Beldarak @AmyZenunim I often think this too, capitalism in the current form is only 2-3 generations old, yet collectively we act as if it's this built-in thing that we can never replace with any other way. It's gas lighting on a grand scale from those doing just fine on the status quo.
@bobthomson70 @Beldarak i've read their theories and it basically boils down to "capitalism is a primordial truth of biology, even lobsters in the permian era practiced their own forms of capitalism". completely unhinged revisionism that flies in the face of how we know preindustrial societies functioned based on pure historical accounts.
potentially hazardous object@AmyZenunim @bobthomson70 @Beldarak wasn't the lobsters thing from, like, them putting a bunch of lobters in a tank that's more crowded than their natural habitat and letting them sort themselves out?
Carson Hill@AmyZenunim @bobthomson70 @Beldarak
Another Crabs Treasure comes to mind... 🦀