• lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If we're speaking seriously though, capitalism would be dysgenics. Since it allows hypothetically "deficient" people to survive and proliferate for centuries if they simply got lucky with money.

    • RedStarLesbian [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I would have to disagree. Since defectiveness and deficiency aren’t objectively and universally measurable, it’s down to subjective opinion what counts as a deficiency or not. In Capitalism, being poor and lower class IS seen as a personal defect. If someone rises out of poverty to become a capitalist, people consider it a natural outcome of that person’s inherent superiority over other poor people who simply can’t do the same due to deficiencies within themselves as people. It’s seen as shedding their filth or even sins in way. It’s becoming “clean”. The inverse is also true with those born into wealth whom fall into poverty. That’s why this poster says, “look in the mirror if you’re failing to rise from your circumstances.” They think this system is justifiable on the basis that naturally superior people will always be rewarded while the inferior will fall into destitution as a result of their flaws and nothing else. It’s eugenics in every sense of the word, imo. It’s not like eugenics in the context it’s usually brought up in is more rational just because it’s based on “genetic superiority”. Which also doesn’t exist in any objective or universal measure.

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I would have to disagree. Since defectiveness and deficiency aren’t objectively and universally measurable, it’s down to subjective opinion what counts as a deficiency or not.

        yeah I agree. I'm just saying that IF you believed in that stuff, it would be dysgenics.