toadsworth
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I have been working for my company since I turned 21. I have been in the world of capitalism for going on 13 years (a third of my life!)
when it works correctly capitalism can be a great thing but as it is often pointed out there is an exploitative side to it that is quite destructive. This is why I'm going to leverage my business sense into getting into the realm of non-profit management.
or getting out of the game entirely and just teaching
when it works correctly capitalism can be a great thing but as it is often pointed out there is an exploitative side to it that is quite destructive. This is why I'm going to leverage my business sense into getting into the realm of non-profit management.
or getting out of the game entirely and just teaching
Josh with a J
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Good morning everyone!!!! Hoping today is better than yesterday. Wait it's Friday it's going to be great (or else)
toadsworth
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Unfettered capitalism is also the cause of most of our societal problems. It's a delicate balance.
trab pu kcip
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it also breeds overpriced medication, starving people and basically slave workers
can it truly be called "innovation" if it is based on something savage?
Josh with a J
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I like whatever keeps giving me money
While I see that innovation is to a certain extent connected with competition, the Soviet Union, despite all her flaws, achieved a lot of technological advances without being a capitalist country.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Yes, because without it those things would never have existed as there would have been no pharmaceutical competition to develop new drugs.
I'm not saying capitalism should be unregulated, it absolutely should be, however it is not a demon.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Not really. The more we learn about the USSR the more we learn it was mostly smoke and mirrors. That isn't even getting into their human rights violations which were so much worse, not that the capitalist west wasnt full of evils.
I just feel that frequently people use capitalism as a scapegoat for their own failures.
T
Transhuman
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Capitalism like evolution is predicated upon pain and starvation, cannabalism, and the rape of earthly things.
trab pu kcip
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how do you know? it's not like humans would sit on their asses all day without the fear of capitalism breathing down their necks. there have always been inventions, from the stone age to medieval times. also it's not like those inventions now always have the best interest of everyone at heart, quite the contrary. since they are fueled by money-driven system profit is pretty much also all they aim for.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Profit is what man has always striven for. If not currency it is a better life, a better mate, the ability to put a title to your name like lady or duchess or queen. Ultimately everything comes down to that individual who wants to be in a better position or wants to go down in history or just want to prove they can do something.
And just looking at metrics, look at what the capitalist world has done in the last couple of centuries. the age of capitalism has seen more advances than any other period of human history.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Work all day tomorrow. Work all day sunday. Work Monday through saturday again.
toadsworth
Banned
I'm invited to a party Saturday but I don't have transportation there or back. So I may just end up at home alone in my luchadore mask playing overwatch and getting hammered.
You've got any of those....sources?
trab pu kcip
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also the most cruel organized mass-suffering tied to corporations and that so called "progress". I think it's kind of an ignorant world view to just shrug all this off and think it's the price we have to pay for innovation instead of maybe aspiring to improve. it's very easy for us to discuss this since neither of us is really at the bottom of the priviledge-pyramid, pretty sure your opinion might be different in a different place.
T
Transhuman
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Ceallach is right, where would man be without his causa sui, which allows him to create the self-belief necessary to operate in full knowledge of the imminentness of mortality. With this imagined raison d'être we become irreplaceable and the sanctity of human life is affirmed.
I like boobs.
I like boobs.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521287898/?tag=neogaf0e-20
This book is a good starting place. The USSR was awful with the suppression of ideals and appearance above everything
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Suffering is tied to progress. Without suffering, there is no motivation. Safety breeds complacency. It's cruel, but it's the natural order. Nature is cruel. We all build off the backs of someone else.
trab pu kcip
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it's not nature, it's an artificial system we built. so why not build another system, that isn't disrespecting the environment, human- and animal rights and simple decency that is neccessary for living in a community in the first place.
No wonder, cult of the glorious leader and Party is the common in any communist/socialist regime.
Old people around here still miss Tito. Of course it was nice time for living if you had obedient high ranking Party official in the family. But when Tito died in 1980s, illusions of brotherhood and unity quickly dissolved.
T
Transhuman
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Having a benevolent dictator doesn't seem that bad in practise.
guten morgen. So many new people lately!
Also add me to the "capitalism is a predatory system that directly causes a lot of human suffering and moreover it doesn't *have* to be this way" list
There's nothing to fool. See the bottom of the OP
Also add me to the "capitalism is a predatory system that directly causes a lot of human suffering and moreover it doesn't *have* to be this way" list
There's nothing to fool. See the bottom of the OP
I'm still heavily in favour of a god-king like in the old Persian Achaemenid empire. But nobody acknowledges me
At least you don't lie to yourself.
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
I'm just kidding. Actual warfighting is a very small part of what we do. The majority of it is humanitarian missions, diplomatic efforts and defense.
Would imperialism imply one government taking over the others? I'm all for one government too but I think it should be more of a progression from stuff like the EU and the United Nations. America already kinda operates the way a larger government would. States control everything that the national government doesn't specifically rule on.
Would make more sense anyway once we make it into space which is still quite a ways away
What took you so long?
friskykillface
Banned
Fucking fuck
Missed the easiest questions on the exam
75 but should have got at least an 85-90
Missed the easiest questions on the exam
75 but should have got at least an 85-90
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Best song for drunk karaoke night. Last two lines are killer.
I don't hate you
I detest you, you shitheaded maggot
Aaaah, I want to go back into karaoke again
Why the long face. Cohabitation rules. Until it doesn't
Well everything has gone well between us so far.
Just nervous, but hoping for the best.
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
This day refuses to end...
Nerdkiller
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So...the latest Hillary email scandal thing turned out to be a big load of nothing. So much for that October surprise.
Mine went pretty fast. Only one hour left!
toadsworth
Banned
This election never ends. Someone put out the fucking dumpster fire already
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