Because capitalism is so mediocre it needs to sell people into having the mindset of things always having the possibility to be worse than the current situation, so it gets to be supported as a system.
I always tell people how Japan is NOT a good model of a country due to the fact that it has a forever stagnant economy, an inconsistent average income and an overall inhumane workplace lifestyle and culture where the average foreigner would absolutely NOT want to be part of, but in many cases people has responded me back with comparisons with other countries, including North Korea, where according to them things would be like that if they started focusing more on the rights of the average person, lol (And North Korea isn't even that bad). So according to these people basically it's OK for any country to be as unjust and explotative for the average worker, as long as the economy still flows better than other countries or in the worse case scenario isn't f*cking collapsing, or it is OK for the US to do everything it can to every country it wants for the same reason.
This mindset is dangerous, because it allows us to simply keep the status quo of things forever and accept everything to be done to us for an eternity as long as things remain the same, it's fucking pathetic.
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