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Sure would be nice if capitalism didn't exist 🤪
Then the vaccine wouldn't either.
It wouldn't exist at all if capitalism didn't exist.
People would just get cancer and die like they used to.
Capitalism is the reason we (and you) have nice things.
Yes, no innovation has been done under any system but capitalism. /s Let's forget about how totalitarian Russia was the first to space. Let's forget about how much medicine was developed under the religious authoritarianism of ancient Arabia. Let's forget about how much philosophy was conceived under feudalism.
Let's totally forget that The Six Nations managed to maintain a cooperative collective of hundreds of thousands of people for at least 15,000-25,000 years with their environmental impact being quite literally the creation and tending of "The Garden of Eden."
What six nations?
arabic numbers bad.
or is it because edison couldnt claim this to be an american invention aswell? just because america is full of thieves doesnt mean they invented shit.
rockets....werner von braun
lightbulb....lumiere
computer ...conrad zuse
internet...tim
i am sure americans have invented absolutely nothing and stolen absolutely everything.
biontech is german, pfizer are the murican scumbags.
tiktok&wechat.... chinese
are you still on meta or drugs?
Capitalism is the reason third generation morons have multiple private jets.
Capitalism =/= money.
I'm sure leaving reddit was a good idea, but joining lemmy might not have been. People here are just delusional in their approach to reality.
It seems a lot of people came here because they're too reddit for reddit.
Science doesn't need capitalism to exist. Technology doesn't need to be for-profit to be developed.
Did you really think these new vaccine will be affordable? Those nice things are for the rich.
Recently read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, and in those books an anti aging "vaccine" is made and shared freely for the citizens of Mars, but on Earth where the rich and powerful still control everything, its used as an incentive to come and work for the most powerful companies, or if you have the money then you can buy it.
I literally hope such a thing is never invented, imagine if the Musk's, Trump's, Bezos', and Putin's of the world lived for hundreds of years instead of finally fucking dying at 90-100 at most.
Terrifying.
That might actually be enough inequality that we might do something about it.
Look up Ted Faro's story from Horizon Zero Dawn.