Anonymous #3 3d

I’m not sure what you’re saying here. Could you elaborate a bit?

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Anonymous #1 3d

im not saying it as an economic system is bad and we should scrap it entirely im saying it has permanently changed the way we think. for example, i suggest we pay everyone a livable wage. bc we have been a capitalist society for so long our first thought is "but that will cause inflation!" and not "yeah that makes sense" like what???

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Anonymous #2 3d

you literally gave a prime example of what i'm talking about! like your first thought about the country's debt levels, why did we make that a big concern??? what happened to being a human :(

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

Because once society reaches a size where any given individual is actually incapable of maintaining a personal relationship with every other individual (this happened over 100,000 years ago) the way we think changed, it wasn’t capitalism that caused it, it was the inevitable result of social change.

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

And the reason peoples first reaction is “inflation” is because of history, we know that decision causes inflation, because we’ve seen it before. And we know the actual suffering brought about by runaway inflation is actually far greater than the suffering alleviated by the artificially increased wages.

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

You gave a great example in your response to #2. Debt levels aren’t some magic number that means nothing, they have very real, very predictable and very painful consequences if they get too high. It’s like someone at the store who would like to buy something, but can’t afford it. Would you advise them to put it on a credit card with no plan on how to pay it off? No, because they will suffer more from the cycle of debt than forgoing a given purchase.

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

And don’t take this as some libertarian “poor people are just unproductive and should be poor!” Argument. I’m not a libertarian by any stretch, but I do believe that we should approach the organization of our society rationality, and that means examining the cost and result of each given organizational structure using reason not emotion.

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

The system with the best history of economic development is capitalism. Bar none, it’s not even close. Second place is a kind of state directed mercantilism, see modern China or the British empire. After that is everything else. So since I believe that the best cure for economic hardship is opportunity and prosperity, I think we should embrace the system which produces the most prosperity. Thus capitalism.

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Anonymous blueeyeswhiteprivilege 3d

Capitalism obviously needs moral restraints, just because there is a supply and demand for a thing doesn’t mean we should automatically accept that thing into our society. Drugs are a great example, there’s a massive demand, massive supply, and the results of that market are absolutely devastating for everyone involved. But that’s not an argument against capitalism.

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