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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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Exactly
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
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There's this weird strawman version of capitalism used by Marx that many still cling to, and which seems to have completely ruined any discussions around financial incentives. For some reason it irritates me a lot when people argue about a word, but they have completely different definitions of the word 😅 "Greed" and "capitalism" are not synonymous. Capitalist mechanisms can (and should!) exist without greed as a primary driver. Marx was absolutely correct in calling out capitalism as being easily co-opted by the greedy, but when the word capitalism is used as a stand-in for the word greed, it really just makes the conversation more confusing and difficult. The word "capitalism" is now broken and useless and IMO people should stop using it, unless they very explicitly define it first.
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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Humans are greedy by nature and capitalism facilitates unbridled greed.
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Trejo
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Any system facilitates unbridled greed. Religion, politics and even non profits. Non-profits have created a safe haven from taxes and destroyed the American medical system. We cannot look at capitalism as a lever for greed. It is just another tool that can facilitate anything you want to accomplish in life. This is what it means to use a tool. You want virtuous actions at scale? Capitalism can do that. You want to feed the poverty stricken? Capitalism can do that. Tools should not be blamed because of the user.
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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Oh and please explain how capitalism can feed the hungry lol
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Dean Pierce 👨💻🌎🌍
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Sustainable farming economies are a thing, and a lot of the time, well intentioned interventions can damage them in really bad ways (as in Haiti). Also things like microlending can stimulate impoverished economies. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/06/10/127750586/how-foreign-aid-is-hurting-haitian-farmers
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Icetoad 🍕 🎩 🐈
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Why do you see sustainable farming economies as a product of capitalism?
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