• Widget@kbin.social
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    Lol what. We have machines and automation now. We can just make manufacturing equipment “suffer” while the humans “get ahead”.

    The zero-sum worldview has been dead since the industrial revolution. Any widespread suffering at this point is the fault of humans.

    Edit: unless you’re trying to say something else?

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        Instead of money? I would imagine it would be money.

        It’s not that people stop working. We still need food, shelter, communication, entertainment, etc. Money is how you convert goods, and I don’t understand how you think that need would vanish.

        But worker efficiency is through the roof. One farmer can grow enough to feed thousands of people. A factory with 10 people can make millions of a given product a year. We can communicate from across the globe without anyone having to carry the message by hand. What makes you think we can’t at the very least give everyone food and shelter in those circumstances? No one intrinsically has to suffer. It only happens because of human greed.

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          Right, even the Roman empire, where 90% of people were farmers, worked out how to give food to everyone. In countries where less than 1% of people are farmers they can’t work out how to get enough food to people while ships dump excess grain in the ocean to stabilize prices?

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      You seem to be making an idealistic argument (ie, lmao what are you saying, of people don’t have to suffer, we have the technology to stop that) whereas the person you’re responding to is making a descriptive claim about how the world currently is.

      I agree completely, people don’t have to suffer. But that’s what the current world is built on. The suffering of the poor, the minorities, the illegal immigrants, visa slaves, sweatshop workers etc. Just because things doesn’t have to be this way doesn’t change the fact that things are this way and it doesn’t look like anything is going to change anytime soon.

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        I’m mostly trying to address the first part

        It’s a requirement for people to suffer for others to get ahead.

        It is absolutely not a requirement. It’s a very common opinion that people hold, and from what I’ve seen it tends to lead to people to end up with extreme right-wing opinions and an us-vs.-them mentality for literally every aspect of their lives, leading to racism, sexism, transphobia, etc.

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          Dude, it’s literally how capitalism is built. Where do you think we get our cheap oil, chocolates, clothes, iphones, rare earth minerals etc from? The wealth of the west is built upon the suffering of the third world. And as I said in my previous comment, it doesn’t look like things will change anytime soon.

          You’re doing the same thing again, conflating the way things are, with the way things have to be. I don’t think it should be this way, I’m just acknowledging how the world currently looks.

          People who fall into right wing views are the ones who believe the world should be unfair and you should push other people down. I think the world can and should be better but closing your eyes and pretending the horrors of capitalism doesn’t exist is just stupid and wont help you build a better world.