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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think Capitalism cares about most individuals as much as that would imply and in fact one of the strengths of it (for its own survival and expansion, rather than in the sense of being a good thing) is that it adapts around the variance of people - just look at phenomenons like Greenwashing.

Human societies have long harmed and even killed people for being different, no Capitalism required.

Just because one thinks Capitalism is a bad thing doesn't mean one has to blame it for all bad things - that's just intellectually lazy and reductive.

The best way to solve a problem is to analyze to figure out what causes it, not lazily blame it on the boggy-man.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Can we agree that cigarettes cause cancer, or is that lazy and reductive as well?

Other things cause cancer, sure, but we are talking about cigarettes right now. Because there is a cigarette right in front of us, causing cancer.

Analogies aside. I am talking (again) specifically about what made this article, who perpetuated it, spread it around, and for what reason? The same reason that imperialist fascism, the final evolution of capitalism before it implodes under the illusion of its own "infinite growth and adaptability", did the exact same thing to trans people and neurodivergent people under the nazi regime in the 30's and 40's. Which, if you havent heard about, is back in style in the USA, concentration camps, and all.

This is a snapshot of propaganda with literal context in the photo that dictates exactly what im talking about. And you are out here ignoring analysis that you claim to want, and calling me lazy for pointing it out, giving further breakdown of my analogies, and giving my anecdotal experience of being neurodivergent under the capitalistic system we live in?¿

Pointing this out is not ignoring the history of human cruelty, it gives context as to how human cruelty can create a system that perpetuates it. and what that looks like. And more importantly, if we cant address the flaws of the system we currently live under, then we are doomed to repeat its agonies again, and again, until it consumes us all.

To simplify my statement, while including yours, so we can both go back to our families.

Humans can be big meanie weenies, capitalism rewards meanie weenie behaviour.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Your argument was equivalent to "all lung cancer is caused by cigarettes".

You don't start from your favored explanation and work backwards to explain the problem with it, you start from the problem and work forwards to all possible explanations, by which point you have several possibilities which you have to judge against each other to determine the most likely.

In simple terms not all meanie weenie behavior happens because it's rewarded by Capitalism.