• null@piefed.nullspace.lol
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    10 days ago

    If you think to yourself that those problems are the result of merely an economic system, you really need to get your brain checked.

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        10 days ago

        Definitely the type of dipshit who says “Oh, you don’t like capitalism? But you participate in it. Curious”

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        9 days ago

        what would you suggest?

        Not being so myopic as to boil all those problems down to being the result of a particular economic system. Was that not clear?

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      10 days ago

      shit man we’re not even really a capitalist economy, if we were truly i could buy any wifi router i want, or chinese auto, or those small trucks to name a few

      this system is big businesses continually lifting the ladder up behind them

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      What else would it be? Capitalism is built on maximizing profit in a market system. Thus everything else comes at the expense of that. There are entire towns and villages in Mexico going with little to no water because coca-cola is extracting most of their natural water sources to make sugary soft drinks because it’s more profitable than meeting needs or preserving natural water sources. This isn’t complicated.

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        9 days ago

        What else would it be? Capitalism is built on maximizing profit in a market system.

        You are sneaking in this inane premise that we exist under pure, free-market capitalism, and always have.

        Try again.

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          No I’m merely suggesting that those who own capital, especially major shareholders in environmentally destructive industries will simply try to be profitable however they can regardless of impact on the environment. They may even utilize state influence to do so. Hence why there is no “pure free market capitalism”, just class interests.