Comment on The supposed paper of record urges Biden not to blame Our insatiably greedy owners for the greedflation they cause

• jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The point of the editorials is to publish dissenting views. If you don’t understand the difference between dissenting political speech and hate speech, then there’s nothing I can really say here.

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  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The people defending this economy are defending the innumerable victims it creates. I don’t consider defending capitalists who literally do and have poisoned towns of children for sociopathic maximization of private profit to be somehow better than a white nationalist hypothetically poisoning a specifically minority town of children for their sick race games.

    Neither is better than the other, one is merely accepted solely because they are in charge. People who are eager to profit off the misery of others belong locked away in mental health facilities, our society has simply forgotten that greed, oh I’m sorry “rational self-interest,” is every bit as destructive as hate, and historically more effective at it.

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    • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So you want to silence all capitalists and have all major news outlets refuse to publish any dissent? Got it, that sounds like a wonderful world.

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      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, the current world is a real prize.

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    • cqthca@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      3rd party here. what is stopping you from starting your own greedy business?

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      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The point of capitalism is to separate labor from most of the value it produces that would otherwise be used to do so, and even in doing so often propagates the problem because it’s initially safer and cheaper to open and have fealty to a franchise because its a losing battle to attempt to compete with the scale of the big players in most conquered economic sectors.

        Either way, you’re enriching the sociopaths, by design. They can steal your labor as an employee or a franchisee, or you can most likely fail opening an independent business in the age of behemoths that can do it for a fraction of the price shittily, but as Walmart proved in destroying main street decades ago, capitalism breeds desperation, which means all most people are forced to care about is cheap.

        So TLDR, I don’t open that independent hardware store because statistics are against me and failure leaves one who doesn’t already hold significant capital in an even worse situation. Funny how the capitalist defenders try to cut it both ways, “you’re where you are because you don’t take risks! Also if you end up destitude its your own fault for not acting responsible.”

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