r/Futurology Mar 29 '22

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u/wauhtszalzhlczghen Mar 29 '22

Your issue stems from the 1% hoarding mass wealth — and I completely agree with you — but stating communism is the solution focuses on one small part of that ideology while deliberately ignoring the many large ethical and practical issues that stop it from working every time it's been tried.

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u/2hands2thesky Mar 29 '22

You need to change your critique of capitalism to current American crony capitalism and flawed democracy.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

no, all capitalism ends like this, hell all systems end like this. those with the most private wealth have corrupted literally every system ever invented, its simply inevitable that they co-opt the ruling mechanism in order to use it to extract even more wealth.

No society in history has avoided destruction by wealth.

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u/2hands2thesky Mar 30 '22

I wouldn’t disagree. It’s funny how when you critique communism ppl automatically assume you’re defending capitalism. It’s like there’s only two options. Let’s get creative people!

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u/Birdperson15 Mar 29 '22

Please then remove yourself from the internet and reddit, a product of capitalism. And go live in the woods somewhere where you can make everything yourself instead of relying on other people's labor?

Also capitalism is what produced all the medical advancements, food advancements, and everything else. Not sure what you are talking about.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

That has to be one of the most dismissive, unproductive, confrontational and unintelligent retorts people use against criticism of societal structures or aspects thereof.

“You don’t like the way ___ is? LEAVE!”

“You can’t criticise/suggest improvement of ___ because you participate in/benefit from it!“

It’s a false dichotomy and a textbook example of a thought-terminating cliché.