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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 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

With that line of thinking, no one would get a raise or improved quality of life.

Like what was already said, life would be a lot more boring. But at least we'd be free of the hamster wheel.

And yeah, no, you wouldn't get a raise, because there'd be no money. You can't get a raise if you can't make a profit, very correct.

Look, imagine these initial conditions: start with 100 people in a moneyless society. Give each person 100 coins. Now ask everyone to make a profit.

That means creating money out of thin air.

The system is b-r-o-k-e-n.

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

The current Western system is working as designed. Do you imagine a fantastical leap forward without any sort of transitioning steps from here to there? I'm working hard to understand you.

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

I know it's working as designed — working against us.

I'm not imagining a leap forward, I'm imagining a leap backwards, to freedom before there was money. Sorry if this has been unclear all along...

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

~~Would you be so kind as to elucidate in some detail?~~

I didn't realize who you were until I scrolled up. Barter is cumbersome and greatly limits mobility. Do you propose means to overcome that?

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

I do not. Like I said, again, life will be a lot more boring and cumbersome. Trade-off.