Wake Up Sheeple!
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I have a choice to try make a soft drink company or corner shop and get aggressively outpriced by Coca Cola/Walmart or not (they'll run at a loss until I'm gone). I have a choice to not pay taxes that will be spent on military bullshit and ruin my life. I have a choice to put my money in a bank account and drip feed them my money or stick it under a mattress where it'll depreciate rapidly. I have a choice to buy a house big enough for a family and never afford to go travelling again.
..and I'm still lucky to have these choices because I'm an educated white person, compared to many who really live just treading water.
Yes, we are free to choose. This is capitalism - the only people really free to choose are the rich and powerful. I love capitalism, but it needs a lot more limits to give the 99% any real freedom.
- You also have the choice not to shop at wallmart. But your choice to save $$ is stronger than your choice to buy americanhotroddy
- And that's the problem with capitalism...it appears to be based on rational choice but people don't act in their long term interests.yuekit
- those are values you talking aboutyurimon
- capitalism favours individual freedoms. so yes - it doesn't benefit the 'whole'. Is it ruining the planet? yes.. but you might as well accelerate our demise.hotroddy
- its values and responsibility.yurimon
- Good convo in here********
- yuekit but people dont act for the good of others either, they act in their own benefits and usually short term if in power. its not a problem with capitalism********
- its a "problem" with people. check the idea of what is the problem and how has this problem benefited people. survival is never pretty always gonna be winners********
- and losers. at least capitalism is true democracy in which winners and losers can be chosen on merit outside political BS********
- I think it's the dynamic between the different groups (government, corporation, etc) that matters. Think of it as competing powers balancing each other out.yuekit