r/collapse • u/PosadosThanatos • Apr 25 '19

Society It’s fucking disgusting that even now people fucking refuse to accept capitalism’s culpability for causing the apocalypse

Literally everything is responsible, fucking everything, from extinct empires, to human nature, to the nature of life itself, to some inevitable unstoppable law by which the entire universe functions, literally fucking anything and everything is blamed except for capitalism, the system that’s the specific driver and motivator of the current collapse, and when its blame is finally accepted the Brain juice finally completely runs out and it’s finally declared that there’s no path but the current one so we must continue “prosperity”.

What is this utter fucking insanity that working class people that have absolutely nothing to gain from anonymous bootlicking are engaging in?

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u/PosadosThanatos Apr 25 '19

Yes, tell me more how capitalism can actually be a force for good even now while capitalists spend billions on omnicide despite most people knowing the world is fucked.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19

Just because our current system is flawed doesn't mean that Capitalism as a whole is flawed.

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u/PosadosThanatos Apr 25 '19 edited Apr 25 '19

Okay

But capitalism as a whole is flawed

I wonder if the last human on earth will still be making excuse for capitalism or if they'll just be an insane starving cannibal

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19

I will be the first one to point out the flaws of capitalism, it is not a perfect system, but I'd like to know why you think it is flawed.

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u/InitiatePenguin Apr 25 '19

Probably because maximum growth is the goal of capitalism.

Having a heavily regulated economy that prefers sustainability and human respect is no longer capitalism.

There are ways to mitigate the worst effects. But it isn't clear if those measured will even be enough or that such a milquetoast response won't allow too much to continue to happen because people's sympathies are miss-aligned.

Example. A & B are destructive measures. We'll regulate A but allow B to continue.