• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    It’s a capitalism thing.

    Extract as much value as possible. Deliver as little value to your customers as possible. Treat them as second layer of product.

    Human needs are not the goal.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      Yep, nobody ever tried to exploit their fellow humans until capitalism was adopted in the 18th century. The other economic systems that existed parallel to capitalism were also exploitation-free.

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        16 hours ago

        It is weird when you criticize one thing and people start saying shit like this, as if your critique of the one thing, is an endorsement of everything else.

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        23 hours ago

        I never suggested otherwise. However capitalism’s core motivator is exploitation.

        It is in no way wrong to suggest we move away from such a model, or criticize such a model.

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        23 hours ago

        The point isn’t that capitalism is worse, but that it isn’t any better. Despite all the fancy clothes and powdered wigs there is still a class oppressing another class except now the oppressors enjoy far fewer violent deaths.

        At least a king had the decency to die several hundred feet behind the poor fucking levies in the same muck as them.