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The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine (lemmy.nz)

submitted 2 months ago by Maeve@kbin.earth to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant machine to generate profit for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/56355

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've already told you, I began with anarchism and moved to communism. I'm not saying it's entirely impossible, either, and I'm not entirely opposed to anarchy, rather that we need a practical, disciplined, and proven means to achieve it, if it's ever to be realized in materiality. It doesn't mean I like practicalities, rather that I recognize them as necessary.

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don’t even know if we’ve ever spoken before to be honest.

However I started with communism and moved to anarchism. I do not think there is any universal one size fits all approach, rather that we need many local ways of doing that accommodate the needs of the local population. That can only be achieved through empowering people at the local level and ensuring they have the flexibility to adapt and change as situations arise.

Top down models are incapable of meeting that, and routinely fall into power traps from small groups of elites from everything I see practiced historically and currently.

[–] pinto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don’t even know if we’ve ever spoken before to be honest.

You have, and Maeve was insulting you for being an anarchist.

Muh left unity tho

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 2 months ago

We have! Sorry, it's one of my divergences. I think by listening to each other, we can grow our perspectives, if not evolve them.

Eta:

I do not think there is any universal one size fits all approach, rather that we need many local ways of doing that accommodate the needs of the local population. That can only be achieved through empowering people at the local level and ensuring they have the flexibility to adapt and change as situations arise.

Believe it or not, this is a shared, popular perspective, on grad!