Comment on You've gotta ask yourself, "What's the point?"

null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Cheebus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  shit man we’re not even really a capitalist economy, if we were truly i could buy any wifi router i want, or chinese auto, or those small trucks to name a few

  this system is big businesses continually lifting the ladder up behind them

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• PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you really need to get your brain checked.

  Pot, meet kettle.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nice one.

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• SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What else would it be? Capitalism is built on maximizing profit in a market system. Thus everything else comes at the expense of that. There are entire towns and villages in Mexico going with little to no water because coca-cola is extracting most of their natural water sources to make sugary soft drinks because it’s more profitable than meeting needs or preserving natural water sources. This isn’t complicated.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What else would it be? Capitalism is built on maximizing profit in a market system.

    You are sneaking in this inane premise that we exist under pure, free-market capitalism, and always have.

    Try again.

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    • SectoidLexi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No I’m merely suggesting that those who own capital, especially major shareholders in environmentally destructive industries will simply try to be profitable however they can regardless of impact on the environment. They may even utilize state influence to do so. Hence why there is no “pure free market capitalism”, just class interests.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Okay, what does that have to do with what I said?

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• davepleasebehave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  what would you suggest?

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  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Definitely the type of dipshit who says “Oh, you don’t like capitalism? But you participate in it. Curious”

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    • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why are you under the impression that I would say that?

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    what would you suggest?

    Not being so myopic as to boil all those problems down to being the result of a particular economic system. Was that not clear?

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• Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  GO THE FUCK ON THEN…WE’RE WAITING.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Waiting for what?

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    • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your elaboration on whatever the hell you are talking about.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What part are you confused about?

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