• leftytighty@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      1 month ago

      But without capitalism we wouldn’t have (insert something that has nothing to do with capitalism but that I completely attribute to it). And that would mean no trade.

      • vaultdweller013
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 month ago

        My ancestors wouldnt have pushed at least one Southern plantation owner to suicide.

          • vaultdweller013
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 month ago

            They werent John Brown style abolitionists, they just got pissed off by a business associate and took it about as far as you would expect from a family who still consider themselves American-Scots.

    • jaemo
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 month ago

      Which is now, very very obviously, not a system design to promote it’s own fitness, a la Darwinism…

      I wonder what happens to piles of sand placed in the path of high-flowing rivers?