The argument that capitalism lets you freely express yourself as an individual is hilarious…and it’s debunked by the people who argue it.
“Hey, I’d like to pursue art and philosophy.”
“Heh, this loser is gonna end up poor.”
Acceptable expression of yourself as an individual must be profitable. The fact that doing what you love will leave you struggling in life is miserable and a direct result of capitalism.
Under what system of economics or government are you allowed to not substantively contribute to human success in your home community and enjoy a high standard of living? I’ve never heard of it.
Another result of capitalism: thinking that art and philosophy do not substantively contribute to the success of your community. Even within capitalism, art inspires people to live fully (as best they can) and not being able to create art is therefore a sure sign that something has been taken from us.
The ability to create art and it’s actual utility are very different things. Art doesn’t feed people, it doesn’t enable people to live, it doesn’t build walls or clothe anyone, it’s nice to have but it’s not contributing to the essential needs of the community.
The fact that you think starving is a normal result of pursuing your interests without a profit motive shows you’re proving what I stated in my post. We literally overproduce resources right now, there is enough to go around. In the 21st century, under capitalism scarcity is artificial.
So it’s apparently effective enough to produce a surplus? Seems like a good system to me.
If your idea of “good” is extracting resources from poor nations and keeping people in a desperate state of poverty then exploiting that cheap labor killing an endless amount of people, sure.
Can’t forget staging coups in countries that decide to nationalize their resources and backing dictatorships to wipe out anyone resisting capitalist order.
If you define this as beneficial, perhaps you should know that global poverty statistics are manipulated by the World Bank and global hunger is on the rise. Seems something’s a bit off to me.
I hope this explains what I meant.
Good as in effective, you know…the word I just used the sentence before. Really skipped the context clues lessons when they were teaching you how to read huh? Or is the school system at fault too?
>Billions of people starving while resources are overproduced
>Effective
I think you’re the one who needs to read
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