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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

That makes a lot more sense than "social democracies "stomp Asia". There is absolutely a global effort to maintain the status quo that keeps many non-western nations suppressed. I don't think social democracy, as a system, is the culprit. It's all a big game for the ultra-wealthy everywhere, and most politicians quickly learn they need to play the game to stay in the game. It won't stop until we create and implement systems that are impossible to corrupt.

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