Seems like everything good would have been invented by people anyway, and lots of the bad things are done in the name of profits. Maybe they would have also happened in another system, but the point stands.
What, like, Double Stuffed Oreo's? Can we even call those good?
I think you could argue that industrial-scale production wouldn't have happened without a profit motive. Not sure I'm gonna call that "good"
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I think it's been undeniably good. Look at modern medicine -- it's straight-up magic compared to what existed even one century ago. A lot of that is rooted in industrial-scale production (widespread availability of antibiotics, for instance).
The problems are:
I'm not opposed to technology or mass production, I was unclear and meant that we could have done the industrial revolution without the filthy slums, black smog belching smokestacks, and meat-grinder factory floors if the profit motive hadn't been the primary concern.
Ah, makes sense.
yeah, fair point. all the ideologies really do blur together if you zoom out far enough, tho. like, why did they build the giant pyramids and how is it different than this
As wasteful as capitalism can be, there's a difference between building an extravagant office/research park and building an extravagant mausoleum. I would rather we direct society's resources towards upgrading the means of production than towards erecting a mountain in a desert.
One isnt filled with dead rich people....yet.