• Methylchloroisothiazolinone@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    The market is not an act of nature. It is not cause and effect. It is not a religion based on faith and inexplicable. Every step of the way described as happenstance or cause and effect is in fact a human being making a decision how to better enrich themselves at the expense of someone else. The market is an elaborate excuse to avoid accountability by greedy sociopaths.

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      10 months ago

      Yes. That’s literally what I am trying to say. In a capitalist system, it is not enough to increase wages because the system will automatically adjust. Billionaires in my area inadvertently proved that the best way to increase quality of life is by introducing heavily subsidized programs. GASP…socialism

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      People looking out for themselves is in their nature. Animals do the same. People cooperate when they see that it is to their mutual advantage to do so, just as many animals evolve to do. People are animals. Animals are nature!

      Calling people sociopaths for looking out for their own interests is to stretch the word so far it becomes meaningless. Everyone is a sociopath, except you and your friends, right? Right.