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jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 3 days agowhat self respecting capitalist wouldn’t try to pay as little for a service they are forced to have as the possibility can?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
one who likes living in a world with… things… in it
what you’re talking about is people who treat capitalism as a fucking religion, who think the only point to life is to make number go up.
A sane “capitalist” will realize that it should be a means to an end, that the actual goal is to make life nice, so it only make sense to apply capitalist practices up to the point where it causes harm.
Like, what are you going to do with billions of dollars if there’s no one to maintain the roads and airports and railways? What joy would you experience on a wasteland planet with no pretty nature and human culture?
Think of an old-timey shopkeep for example, sure they operate under capitalism, but they still want to fucking talk to their customers and be part of the community, and they’ll give kids some extra candy for free because they can trivially afford to do so and it brings them joy to see happy kids, plus those kids will then grow up and remember how ol’ shopkeep Williams was nice to them and they’ll help him out in his twilight years.