I am alive today because many people realized that an economic system alone isn’t sufficient to fix all of society’s problems, and implemented social safety nets. I’m alive because greedy pharmaceutical companies invented drugs that keep me alive. I’m alive because my ancestors moved here because capitalism was demonstrably improving lives.
I understand that it seems to you that we can’t have compatibilism between communism and capitalism because the ideologies are anyithetical. But that’s just it, they’re just ideologies. They don’t like up cleanly with reality. I’m perfectly fine with socialist movements like labor unions and social safety nets working in concert with capitalism. We need significant checks on capitalism to dismantle the current oligopoly. But we also need significant checks on communism, lest we all end up driving beige cars and shopping at soviet-quality grocers.
This isn’t inane, it’s just not lining up with your extremist rhetoric. What you want under a socialist or communist government is for good to be provided to those that need it. But when it comes in the form of excess capital being redistributed to the poor by good banks, you find it inherently offensive. We are feeding the poor, successfully, under capitalism. If it were fundamentally contradictory, it wouldn’t be happening. And yet it clearly is.
Wow. You quite seem to enjoy twisting yourself into knots.
No one suggested that an economic system would solve every problem, but plainly the most essential objective is keeping everyone adequately fed.
Capitalism is an economic system based on the profit motive.
The profit motive makes some immensely wealthy, while keeping others deprived.
Therefore, capitalist society completely fails on its own merits to support the one objective that is singularly most indispensable for any society.
Do you understand why the objection is being given against capitalism, the system that insists profits are more important than people?
Also, you have begun descending more deeply into capitalist apologetics, by arguing that the profit motive of pharmaceutical shareholders, and not the skill and dedication of researchers, leads to development of successful therapies.
You are so fixated on the belief about propagandistic manipulation that you are not even responding coherently, and have not been throughout discussion, to the extremely simply observations being placed before you.
I am alive today because many people realized that an economic system alone isn’t sufficient to fix all of society’s problems, and implemented social safety nets. I’m alive because greedy pharmaceutical companies invented drugs that keep me alive. I’m alive because my ancestors moved here because capitalism was demonstrably improving lives.
I understand that it seems to you that we can’t have compatibilism between communism and capitalism because the ideologies are anyithetical. But that’s just it, they’re just ideologies. They don’t like up cleanly with reality. I’m perfectly fine with socialist movements like labor unions and social safety nets working in concert with capitalism. We need significant checks on capitalism to dismantle the current oligopoly. But we also need significant checks on communism, lest we all end up driving beige cars and shopping at soviet-quality grocers.
This isn’t inane, it’s just not lining up with your extremist rhetoric. What you want under a socialist or communist government is for good to be provided to those that need it. But when it comes in the form of excess capital being redistributed to the poor by good banks, you find it inherently offensive. We are feeding the poor, successfully, under capitalism. If it were fundamentally contradictory, it wouldn’t be happening. And yet it clearly is.
Again, all I want from you is better propaganda.
Wow. You quite seem to enjoy twisting yourself into knots.
No one suggested that an economic system would solve every problem, but plainly the most essential objective is keeping everyone adequately fed.
Capitalism is an economic system based on the profit motive.
The profit motive makes some immensely wealthy, while keeping others deprived.
Therefore, capitalist society completely fails on its own merits to support the one objective that is singularly most indispensable for any society.
Do you understand why the objection is being given against capitalism, the system that insists profits are more important than people?
Also, you have begun descending more deeply into capitalist apologetics, by arguing that the profit motive of pharmaceutical shareholders, and not the skill and dedication of researchers, leads to development of successful therapies.
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You are so fixated on the belief about propagandistic manipulation that you are not even responding coherently, and have not been throughout discussion, to the extremely simply observations being placed before you.
Your engagement is in bad faith.