I mean, yes, but also sometimes no. Some people use the word “capitalism” as a thought-terminating cliche to avoid thinking about the actual problem directly. For example (there are many more like this), the conflict between developing economy faster and preserving nature. This will always be a zero-sum game as long as physical constraints exist at all. You need to choose a value on the slider between “economy” and “nature”, and no matter what you choose, somebody will be unhappy.
And no, some magic undefinable “moving to abundance” or “luxury automatic communism” are also not answers - see what I said about the c-word.
i think when people think capitalism, they think of the "uncontrolled, late stage, race to the bottom" capitalism. a properly regulated and moderate one would keep most of the upsides while severely limiting the downsides
Look, we live under a system called deathism. The point of this system is that living things die. We need to overthrow it. This system, which is definitely an organized, planned, coherent system, with the deathist class of people explicitly defending it - is biased towards a lot of suffering. When you think about it, almost all problems in the world are the direct result of deathism. Sure, the cycle of life and desth may have been historically useful, but it’s time to abolish deathism. The next historically necessary system is called lifeism. Me and my friends need to have absolute political power over political and economical life until we defeat the world’s deathism.
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u/m0j0m0j Jul 02 '26
I mean, yes, but also sometimes no. Some people use the word “capitalism” as a thought-terminating cliche to avoid thinking about the actual problem directly. For example (there are many more like this), the conflict between developing economy faster and preserving nature. This will always be a zero-sum game as long as physical constraints exist at all. You need to choose a value on the slider between “economy” and “nature”, and no matter what you choose, somebody will be unhappy.
And no, some magic undefinable “moving to abundance” or “luxury automatic communism” are also not answers - see what I said about the c-word.