THAT'S THE POST.

Every human instinctly knows that a very small minority living in unlimited luxury while half the world lives in squalor is an unforgivable evil that can't be forgiven.

Theory is cool and good, and you should study it as much as you're able to, but at the end of the day, you don't need to read any theory at all to understand why this is wrong. You just need the basic human empathy we're all born with.

A significant amount of people enjoy being one the priviliged few and have no sympathy for those screwed over. They still KNOW it's morally wrong, they just enjoy it. Most people don't think like that though, and have just been conditiond since childhood into believing contrived justifications of why it has to be this way or why change is dangerous if not outright impossible. In my experience, they all know the current capitalist system is unacceptable if you press them enough, even if they'd never use those words or think about it in those terms. It's just that none of us know what to do about it.

The entire point of both modern political and economic theory is to justify something we all intuitively understand isn't okay, which is probably part of why modern society is so fucked.

  • literal_moron [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    My dumbass family proves you wrong. My cousin is a removed and argued to my face that capitalism is good because muh freedumbs for the cons00mers, and he regularly "likes" capitalist goons like Kevin O'Leary posts on linkedin. Meanwhile the adults in my family are classist and racist doucebags who are literal slumlords and own own land (ranches), and they constantly point to cuba and venezuela as to why muh shocialism doesn't work and capitalism good!!1! Thank god I put a 1000+ mile buffer zone between me and them.

    • Tommasi [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      :sadness: Sucks that your family is like that. Glad you were able to get away.

      While I obviously can't say anything about your family specifically, stuff like that always sound like desperate grasping to explain why bad things are actually good. It's propaganda you learn to justify your own place in the capitalist order and why you shouldn't try to change things for the better. Beliefs they have because they're convenient, not because they're actually convincing.