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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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[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What fucking bullshit.

Profit is a goddamn lie. It's MY FUCKING LABOR, anything bit returned to me and the crew after operating costs are covered is stolen wages.

Profit IS rent seeking, and requires that actual progress of the community be violently suppressed. People with an honest desire to help the community are forced to accept exploitative conditions that enable this theft, otherwise you starve and die.

Nothing good has ever, or will ever, come from the system you describe, since it CAUSES every god damn problem that it supposedly fixes. resulting in a vicious cycle of pain and more pain and nothing else.

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

It seemed to work in AES states well enough.