• immutable
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    4 months ago

    I’ve always thought it so odd how people can look at something like greed and we pretty much all agree, that thing is bad.

    Go out to dinner with some friends and just start taking everyone’s food and drink and you aren’t getting invited out again.

    Then for our society we were like “what if we let greed be the driving force of this thing and the greediest people who take up the absolute most for themselves we will turn into celebrities!”

    In my life I’ve known lots of people and most have been pretty regular fine people. It’s like our entire society is being held back by a small group of people going “no you can’t have nice things because if you had a nice thing a person like me would come in and fuck it all up to make a profit” and then we put those people in charge.

    • Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I was so confused by this as a kid when I started to comprehend international politics. I remember asking my parents, “kids know this isn’t ok. How do groups of adults behave like this?”