• @AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    The UK already fell to the multinational capitalist greed machine. Looks like France is falling, too. Any and all means to squash the protest of citizens of the society that might hurt the gdp output of the beloved economy.

    Because everyone seems to have forgotten, an economy is supposed to be a tool to better distribute goods and services for the benefit of society. When a society lives in service to, and is harmed for the benefit of the economy, your society is ass backwards.

    • zephyrvs
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      71 year ago

      I don’t think people profiting from the current economy would necessarily agree though. 🌚

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think the people profiting significantly from the current economy tend to dwell on the negative effects their actions have on other human beings, especially human beings below them on the socioeconomic ladder, as that tends to be the sole metric by which capitalists, the ones with significant capital not their self-hating peasant sycophants, weigh human life.

        Economic success tends to come from sociopathic behaviors, how much you are willing to exploit others to disproportionately benefit yourself. We reward such manipulation leaps and bounds beyond any form of actual, prosocial labor.

        A rapist likely wouldn’t agree rape is wrong.

        A serial killer likely wouldn’t agree murder is wrong.

        A capitalist likely wouldn’t agree, at least if they were being honest about how they conduct themselves professionally, that exploitation or insatiable greed is wrong.

    • @KnowLimits@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      What exactly does this have to do with the multinational capitalist greed machine? It seems to me that governments of societies across the entire spectrum of economic systems have quashed protests with at least as much unreasonable force.

      We do need to keep our governments in check to retain our freedom and privacy, but this is true universally.

      • @AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
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        This is a response to protests from the people from their leader circumventing their legislative process to raise the retirement age to satiate the capitalists who don’t want their taxes to go up to pay back into the system that provided the infrastructure and means for their success in the first place.

        Those protests are continuing and getting worse due to increased use of police force, and its cutting into GDP, the only thing the capitalists care about. How much value did we accumulate? How much did the beloved economy grow metastasize? Better find a way to kill the people’s voice, or our quarterly earnings won’t reach shareholder expectations!