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Capitalism is nothing but a giant pyramid scheme. (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

When you have to eat and the means to feed ourselves is held by few, no transaction is voluntary.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Of course it's voluntary. You choose what you buy, when you do it, how much and from whom.

    If someone held you on gunpoint and told you to buy their product, that would be involuntary.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can choose what, when, how much, and from whom, but you are still are still forced to do so. Choosing which person puts me at gunpoint doesn't make it voluntary

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can also feed yourself by growing food or hunting. Neither of those are banned, just more inconvenient and you probably have some other skills to sell and buy food instead

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can only do so on land that I purchased. Or on someone else's land I purchased the right to do so on

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Or hunt on public land.

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