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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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[–] Bananskal@nord.pub 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not wild at all. It isn't even a "take", just basic facts and logic. Everyone cannot make a profit. That's just not possible.

Your scenario of workers owning the means of production and all that, they'd still be participating in the grand world scheme of paying for things with money. It doesn't make a difference.

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

What sort of circumlocution is this? You are arguing against nothing I said.

Profit isn't the issue. Exorbitant profit is. Who gets the profit and how its used is. When workers are the state and own the means of production, profits can be planned and used to keep production lines running, decrease hours while increasing wages, paying more taxes for basic human rights such as clean food, air, water, quality housing, quality healthcare, quality education, reduction of waste and emissions, r&d of better ways to produce, better medicine, and more!

[–] Bananskal@nord.pub 1 points 2 months ago

I'm saying everything you said is irrelevant to the point I'm making. Sorry if that was unclear.