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Making paper? Capitalizzum. Marx would have cried if he heard people equate economy and production with capitalism.
Here's my point. We live under global capitalism. It's just how things are, right?
And capitalism, just like, say, life has its ways. It creates an environment where certain outcomes are more likely than others.
Making an observation about it does not make me partial to other systems. I have no such preference. What I observe is just that capitalism, just like life, always finds a way--its way.
Someone mentioned in this thread using CRISPR to make better soldiers. It's crazy, right? But why isn't crazy to tinker with a tree? Great, it becomes a better product. It serves us better. And all seems good. But once you do that to the tree, and it becomes profitable, the incentive is there to make that true for everything else.
I think it's dumb because such power (CRISPR) should be treated with great care. Curing a disease? Go for it. But be careful. But to make a better product? I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way.
Perhaps I'm not seeing the whole picture. Or maybe I should take some bioethics class again.
But whatever may be the case, my point is not there all proletariat the world over should unite.
Mate, I don't know or care about the other guy's insults, but don't you think unspecifically attributing the word to the US's terribly managed economy is getting cringe and worse muddying the water. I've seen a super posh actress who's famous for being posh (nobility on both sides of the family) complain (in character) about it on a trailer for a major movie coming out soon.
Not to say criticism is cringe, but while I might be wrong, something seems to be missing.
Thank you for commenting.
I'm not US based. Perhaps I have a way of using capitalism that rubs some people the wrong way. Not my intention, but I brought it up. So it's on me.
I see capitalism as a state of affairs. I live under it as other peoples at other times lived under a different set of conditions. I'm not trying to pick up a fight.