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  • There are a few misconceptions in your comment:

    While I do agree that there are other problems like racism and bigotry which existed before capitalism (based on an answer you gave in another comment) and while I do agree these also need to be addressed, I do disagree that capitalism isn’t a major source of problems of modernity.

    Why?

    Because the cornerstone of capitalism is to use money to generate more money in a feedback loop towards (nonexistent) “infinite money” (which is different from feudalism, roman empire or ancient Egypt which all had some sort of market without being capitalist economies).

    SInce it is impossible to make infinity money, an inherent part of capitalism are the crises cycles of boom and bust.

    It also makes the creation of services as an afterthought (because making money is more important) and it is also tied to the enshitfication we’re seeing today.

     

    I think you’re calling as “capitalism” a thing that is actually “technological innovation (under capitalism)”

    We’re all aware of free/open source softwares

    We’re all aware that it is possible to develop technological innovation outside of capitalist framework (and again: Capitalism = Using money to make more (infinite) money)

    almost all of scientific researches advances are because of passion of the researches instead of the greed of capitalism.

    Yes… Everyone “needs” money to survive. But I hope you do agree that nobody in the world needs billions of dollars to simply survive.

    for God’s sake, a lot of people living in “third world” dream of earning 300 dollars a month to survive and consider that making 1000 dollars a month is a small luxury (I’m from brasil and 1000 dollars is around R$ 4000 or R$ 5000 while most people lives with R$3000 or less)

    What I’m saying is that, past the required money for surviving and for having a few “luxuries”, there is no need for anyone having millions or billions of dollars every month and that it would be possible to keep scientific and technological grow under such conditions because curiosity and desire for changes are part of human nature.

    if it was entirely impossible for humans to develop things without being paid before, then nothing around open/free software would exist.



  • Sorry to butt in, but I think we already got his point.

    And I hope that you got his point that, in the last 20 years (maybe more), the claws of european christianity is better clipped than the claws of american christianity (which is growing sharper and sharper)

    Again, I get that, a few centuries ago (crusades), christianity in europe had claws as sharp as a razor. but it got clipped, it grow again, got clipped, grow again (under fascism and nazism, which used the bible to persecute jews, homossexuals, black people and way more).

    And nowadays, it got clipped again and that claw has less grip than the claw on USA.

     

    The true questions are:

    Will that claw in Europe grow sharp again following suit of american’s claws or can they keep clipping that thing to not harm anyone?

    And will american christianity’s claws get clipped before it is too late or will they let it grow sharp as a razor and behead the heads of innocents?

    These are the questions that need to be pondered.