• flandish@lemmy.world
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    that’s cool. we live under none of those systems. focus on the one we are beholden to and don’t distract as if there is some sort of contest.

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      I’m just trying not to replace this with something worse.

      But since I know history I get to watch humans make the same mistakes over and over again.

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        Fun fact: not questioning capitalism inevitably leads to EXTRA awfulness added as the people at the top use their outsized wealth and influence to remake society based on their stupid and/or selfish ideas.

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          Capitalism sucks ass, for its own unique reasons and for reasons it shares with other economic systems.

          If it’s replaced with another system with clocks and pants and jobs I’ll hate that one too.

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            Capitalism sucks ass

            Yup. You can stop there.

            No need to tack on the whataboutism in a transparent attempt to argue in favor of it without being seen doing so.

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                    Again, that’s not the point.

                    With the possible exception of fundamentalist anarcho-primitism, all systems tend to involve pants one way or the other.

                    That DOESN’T preclude you from criticizing the system currently ruining the world more than any other without a whataboutism caveat.

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        We should work on replacing then, it’s clear that the way things are has to go