• Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “So long as I’m free to exploit you into subsistence, you’re free to die in the gutter when you’re too broken to produce value for me!”

    -The capitalists destroying us and the habitability of the world for any future humans, solely to run up their ego scores.

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      7 months ago

      I’m about three-quarters through Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and I wonder how she would interpret how reality played out in this country, being that her biggest fears would come from the value system she thought of as the solution.

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        7 months ago

        They always double down with a no true Scotsman defense that we didn’t go far enough or didn’t implement the idea in full. This kicks the can down the line to ensure further exploitation.