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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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[–] dtlm@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having a monetary trading unit is not the problem. Trading goods for goods is not always an option because you might need goods or services from someone who has no interest in the goods or services which you produce. The main problem is when this monetary trading unit inherently and intentionally devaluates over time. Therefore if we just used gold we would be far better off.

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

Gold makes no difference because it's the same as money. You need to make a profit of gold as well. It's the same as being a trader. They add nothing except inflate the price of things for the service of being a middleman. It's the exact same issue as money. And I know gold is a finite resource but it still doesn't change the fact that you need to make a profit in order to live.

you might need goods or services from someone who has no interest in the goods or services which you produce.

This is exactly the purpose of money, from the start. It's something people attribute value onto, because it's pretty (gold, that is) and whatnot. But it has backfired.

I think what I'm actually saying is that we need to be more self-sufficient, and limit our need for trading at all.