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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
So although you agree that Capitalism has been so hugely successful in changing the scope of living conditions that a 50 or 100 year comparison to our past is completely useless, you think it's time to be done with it?
Totally bizarre.
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Yes. It's not totally bizarre. There are things that work for a time period, but then become enemies of themselves. Saying something like this, to me, is comparable to saying "so you agree that the use of fossil fuels has allowed our species to grow technologically at an incredibly rapid pace, but now it's time to be done with it? Bizarre!"
The side effects of capitalism (massive debt bubbles with no hope of payment, squeezing out of jobs that used to pay well enough to actually support a family in the pursuit of the cheapest possible labour, technological advances that have removed actual jobs from the pool of employment due to redundancies, etc..) need to be adjusted for. And I never said to do away with it completely, I said "in it's current form". These things need to be seriously considered. We are removing jobs from our pool of employment possibilities. Everyone likes to claim that people without work are lazy and need to get themselves educated. What happens when even those people who are educated and have worked hard can't get work because the jobs just straight up don't exist?
I think I've supported my points fairly well throughout this whole exercise, I don't see anyone from the contrary doing much to dispute what I'm saying. I'm happy to engage if you have an argument beyond "totally bizarre".
You want bizarre? It's not capitalism we need to move on from, it's money.