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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (12 children)

i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc.

Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit.

You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity.

Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way.

[–] SreudianFlip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Propaganda conflates industrialization with capitalism continually, obscuring the possibility of any other economic system.

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