A Boring Dystopia

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One of capitalisms biggest tragedies (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usually when people are in favour of getting rid of capitalism, they’re also in favour of getting rid of hierarchies such as class divide.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but one does not inherently include the other.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism does inherently include a class divide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How so? In particular how would you compare it to apartheid or India's old caste system?

Making big jumps in income is mostly luck based (building a company and getting funding for it), but is not inherently bound to some external property, like where you live or who your parents are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The capitalist class vs the working class