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The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine (media.kbin.earth)
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The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/56355

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[–] 1 point 1 month ago

Awwww, okay, thanks.

Well I'll be happy to explain it to you if you're curious. I'm otherkin. There are two big philosophies in the otherkin community about how it works: the neurological group, and the spiritual group.

The neurological otherkin believe that just like trans people, they have an abnormality in their brain that has changed their species affinity from human to something else. They identify as having a human body and brain, but a nonhuman mind within that brain.

The spiritual otherkin believe that certain spiritual experiences they've had explain their identity. Spiritual otherkin often believe they reincarnated from a nonhuman body into a human one. They might have experiences of having a nonhuman astral form while astral projecting.

Personally, I'm an antirealist. I don't think the nature of reality is objective. I think our subjective reality is made up of cultural constructs. I think the idea of species is unscientific and impossible to define by biological characteristics. I believe our social constructs should be manipulated to serve people, instead of the other way around. If we're manipulating people to serve our social constructs, then we're a failed society.

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