If you are any part of nature and also economically important, you get barbarically exploited until you go extinct. If you are not, you will be bulldozed to make room for the former. Capitalism is the best system of morality humans have ever, and will ever, come up with, and I truly cherish the utopia it has brought upon civilization.
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Tikiporch@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If horseshoe crabs were to become less economically important, is that a good thing for horseshoe crabs? They ain’t exactly Pandas, so will little Sally and Bobby care if horseshoe crabs become endangered? They’re already in a precarious situation…
anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Capitalism isn’t a system of morality. Or at least it isn’t supposed to be.
The fact that people think more money = moral is one of the largest problems in the world right now.
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure it was sarcastic.
1847953620@lemmy.world 7 months ago
all hail the paper which ruins literally every single fucking thing. the paper has spoken.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I chose to express it like that by design. My contention is that capitalism is, in fact, or at the very least de facto, a system of morality. It promotes wealth as an indicator of higher moral stature. It has superseded rule of democracy, as wealth has been assigned itself as a metric by which the efficacy of individual civil participation is measured and the path of society determined.
In other words, money equals power, and possessing money/power is indicative of a higher moral. Echoes of medieval times…
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cows and chickens are doing pretty well in terms of raw numbers.
kandoh@reddthat.com 7 months ago
I think living to have your fluids harvested in factory farms is a worse outcome than going extinct.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Personally speaking, the fluid in question and method of harvest would determine how much I’d rather be dead.
Acters@lemmy.world 7 months ago
if things got to brain in a jar levels and I am complacently accepting of the fake reality, then I might just live a long life
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can not prove your brain isn’t already in a jar being fed signals to simulate reality.