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[-] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago

Capitalism is not violent and greedy. Humans are violent and greedy.

"Guns don't kill people, humans kill people." "Capitalism isn't the problem, humans are."

Humans are the problem. You're right. Yet, humans use guns to kill people. Humans use capitalism to be greedy and violent.

If capitalism wasn't a tool to be used, humans wouldn't use it. The tool makes the problems when used, so get rid of it.

[-] fkn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the most persuasive argument in this thread so far... but I'm not sure it's valid (which is disconcerting because I do think the guns argument is valid but like you said it's the same it very similar argument)...

I think the part that is different is the scale of scope. For violence, modern firearms immediately peg the board in the red. I'm not sure that capitalism does that.

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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