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[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Hey now, let's be realistic.

Sometimes it's rich people paying poor people to tell poor people to blame poor people.

Sometimes they aren't even paid, they just do it because they're ~~good little sheep~~ indoctrinated from birth by the ultra wealthy to fight any war but a class war.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Indoctrinate from birth to fight any war but a class war is a charitable way to say they are stupid.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I feel like it's a bit like Plato's cave.

If a person experiences a specific thing for their entire life, they may very well believe that is the only way things can be.

I certainly believed in my country and capitalism and religion when I was a child. Once I stepped out of my family's sphere of influence and got non religious friends, I finally got to see that isn't the only way of life and all of these things actively harm people. Of course reading the Bible fully helped with the religion one lmao

Of course, some people have experienced that "more" and decided "nah, thee things are good actually and I will argue with internet strangers about the merits of capitalism because daddy bezos told me things are getting better"

You can fix ignorance, but you can't fix stupid.

[–] Sour_Kabos@reddthat.com 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no good argument against capitalism. I agree there should be some guardrails and regulation, but it's a matter of how much.

At the core it is capitalism though, and it's the supeeior ecinomic model to anything else.

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