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minus-squareQuacksalber@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down12·7 hours agoBut it is that selfishness that communism can’t control for and that capitalism only dampens the effect of. You need a system that counteracts those selfish tendencies in order to reach lasting stability.
minus-squareSop@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 hours ago‘A system that counteracts those selfish tendencies’ you mean a system in which: housing is not controlled by companies with no moral incentive to keep them liveable and affordable? people don’t learn from a young age that their value is directly connected to their willingness to fuck people over for money? there is no monetary incentive to create artificial deficits in essential goods like housing and food? the whole economy is not based on ‘cheap labour’ and the illegal extraction of minerals from other countries?
minus-squareElectricAirship@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 hours agoIn what way does capitalism “dampen” selfishness?
minus-squaresub_ubi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·7 hours agoIt reserves selfishness for a handful of weirdos, and allows every worker to be selfless.
minus-squareThe Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 hours agoit rewards it in my view. it conditions us to be selfish
But it is that selfishness that communism can’t control for and that capitalism only dampens the effect of. You need a system that counteracts those selfish tendencies in order to reach lasting stability.
‘A system that counteracts those selfish tendencies’ you mean a system in which:
In what way does capitalism “dampen” selfishness?
It reserves selfishness for a handful of weirdos, and allows every worker to be selfless.
it rewards it in my view. it conditions us to be selfish