Robert Link@phaedral@mastodon.social
@Npars01@mstdn.social @georgetakei@universeodon.com Ah, but did they make a buck or two in the process? Profit justifies all.
Nicole Parsons@Npars01@mstdn.social
@phaedral@mastodon.social @georgetakei@universeodon.com
We forget that capitalism isn't a religion or a system of ethics to anyone but billionaires.
https://jacobin.com/2023/01/amartya-sen-development-economics-capitalist-markets-inequality-exploitation
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer
It's amoral at best & downright evil at worst.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/the-opportunity-costs-of-capitalism/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-useful-idiot-capitalism/615031/
Sometimes democracy ameliorates the damage & tries transparency, oversight, & regulation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction
Pursuing a course of action known to end in world war is evil.
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