Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
venusaur@lemmy.world 1 week agoBut if the citizens didn’t fund the company’s greed, they wouldn’t exist. Plenty of examples of things people don’t need that they continue to buy, and support unethical business operations leading to harm.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s some capitalism = commerce bullshit. Capitalism only perverts commerce to its own end of allowing a single person to “own” everything. Commerce existed for over 10,000 years before capitalism existed, and the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, even said that once capitalism has achieved its goals, which we did in the late 1800s according to Adam Smith, that it would be absolutely imperative to transition to a more “socially equitable” [sic] and “sustainable” form of commerce under a direct democratic framework.
Try using some actual facts rather than feelings in your next reply, also actually read The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Wealth of Nations. If you are actually literate, you should be able to plow through both texts in two two to three hour readings.
venusaur@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This comment is so pretentious and yet so dumb. Nice job. Capitalism only works if people are spending money. There’s no getting around that. If people elect to spend money on goods they don’t need and in turn those companies producing the goods are harming people then they are responsible. Should they not be “Luigied?”
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Capitalism has served its purpose. Adam Smith would be screaming for revolution. Commerce exists without capitalism. It’s long since past time for capitalism to be relegated to the dustbin of history
venusaur@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Apparently reading doesn’t make you smart or enable you to engage in meaningful discourse.
You should check out It’s Not You by Ramani Durvasula