all hail the paper which ruins literally every single fucking thing. the paper has spoken.
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Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 7 months agoCapitalism 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.
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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 It has superseded rule of democracy, as wealth has been assigned itself as a metric by which the efficacy of individual civil participation is measured and the path of society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…
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure it was sarcastic.