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Oh, that person was definitely insulting people and accusing them of addiction, and it wasn’t cool at all. I just think the whole “let people enjoy things” retort is ridiculous and overdone.
Oh, that person was definitely insulting people and accusing them of addiction, and it wasn’t cool at all. I just think the whole “let people enjoy things” retort is ridiculous and overdone.
I see. My apologies for misunderstanding you.
More clarification would be helpful, I agree.
the same way each other digital storefront does
I’m not sure if I’m understanding you correctly, but “everyone else is doing evil too” is not an incredibly effective defense against doing evil.
Rights are not a purely legal concept. You can have rights that are not codified by law.
How about letting people enjoy things?
How is this person’s criticism preventing you from enjoying things?
I bet the Deck has a lot to do with this.
Accountant: Laughs in cost allocation
That’s not a gorilla, that’s a penguin!
I don’t mean evidence for their political convictions, I mean that they chose .ml specifically because it could stand for Marx and Lenin.
Can I have your autograph?
This sounds like a really dumb rumor. Do you have evidence?
Do you believe it’s the only thing that’s worked so far, or the only thing that could ever possibly work?
For all of the benefits and blessings that capitalism has given us, there are several things people need to realize:
When we talk about all the good that capitalism has done for us, that’s a vanishingly small us. There are literally billions of people in the world today who are languishing in poverty that makes first-world poverty look downright lavish. Then there are those first-world impoverished, who doubtlessly do live lives of fruitless toil and abject misery. And now think about the people in centuries past – the serfs, the slaves, the child laborers… The fact that capitalism has managed to give some comfort to some of us in some countries in the past century does not negate the immense, incalculable suffering it took to get here. And as I said, very many people today, even in modernized nations, are suffering immeasurably still.
Capitalism has overstayed its welcome regarding global crises like climate change. The profit motive seems not to be working at all, let alone with the appropriate urgency, toward the goal of saving us from the consequences of climate change. The scientific consensus largely appears to be that we’re too late to sidestep a cataclysm, but this is still not enough to prompt world leaders (i.e. the rich and powerful) to step up their game.
On a more high-minded level, capitalism is inherently repugnant because the people at the top can only enrich themselves by skimming off of the rightful earnings of the ones at the bottom. This is unavoidable; how could the CEO get so rich if 100% of the laborers’ value was given to them? This goes beyond the natural reality that labor is required to survive. The issue here is that rather than having organized our economy around people laboring together for their own mutual benefit, we’ve organized our world such that the vast majority of us labor for the benefit of the few elites who only deign to pass on a pittance once the laborers become too uppity. People who oppose capitalism do not oppose labor; they oppose the way our global society has decided to distribute its results.
Capitalism, at least in its cutthroat, largely unrestrained, American fashion, is by no means the only option we have. European countries demonstrate that capitalism can be moderated to work better for the masses, and there is no reason to believe even they’ve gone as far as they can. People love to jeer at communism for its many failures in implementation without seeming to realize that, as expressed above, countless people all over the world are currently suffering and starving and languishing under capitalism too.
Absolutely. The website on mobile is functional, but rather inelegant.
I’m just yankin’ your chain, mango.
marlo, y u no makea da sleepin ;(
More like No, bye, yo
“Radiation-emitting” would be correct in this case. As it reads now, the ball is made of radiation and is itself emitting plutonium.
I feel like living in such a town would be very depressing.
Paying for her cab fare home sounds reasonably polite.