• Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 month ago

        So many replies to this topic are just ‘everything sucks because humans are horrible’.

        I could understand a kid making angsty comments like that, but it’s just embarrassing when a grown-up does it.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Human aspects like greed are not intrinsic to humanity, but created by the material conditions and mechanisms surrounding them, and are thus malleable and expressed in lower or greater degrees in different systems. Capitalism in particular expresses greed as its entire foundation is the relentless accumulation of profit and exansion of markets and commodification for the purposes of private wealth.