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    5 months ago

    if by do more u mean organize a revolution then yeah do more, but if u mean vote with ur wallet just a friendly reminder that the corps have an unimaginably bigger wallet than anyone else and ur individualistic attempt to change the world thru this means will be completely drowned out in literal billions of dollars of propaganda.

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      5 months ago

      If you feel that way, I guess their propaganda dollars are working against you, at the least.

      Stop thinking you’re so outgunned.

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        if u think u can beat them in their system that they made and control by playing by their rules u are delusional. u can not fight capitalism by consuming.

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          5 months ago

          I’m not trying to beat capitalism. I like regulated, competitive capitalism.

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              Because I think with proper regulation capitalism has ushered in the greatest improvements in quality of life compared to the other economic systems we have tried.

              When you don’t assume infinite growth and you instead optimize for maintaining a distribution of capital, I think it can be a good motivating system. We just need our baseline focused by human rights, not the money.

              Money is what we decide it is, not the other way around. The people who are in charge right now want you to think money is in control.

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                  5 months ago

                  I believe it because countries with more capitalist tendencies tend to have higher standards of living than other countries.

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                    That’s an easy mistake to make. Judging countries by where they get their wealth, ie exploitation of the Global South, combined with judging by trajectory, will explain why this is a mistake.