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I feel like it's a bit like Plato's cave.
If a person experiences a specific thing for their entire life, they may very well believe that is the only way things can be.
I certainly believed in my country and capitalism and religion when I was a child. Once I stepped out of my family's sphere of influence and got non religious friends, I finally got to see that isn't the only way of life and all of these things actively harm people. Of course reading the Bible fully helped with the religion one lmao
Of course, some people have experienced that "more" and decided "nah, thee things are good actually and I will argue with internet strangers about the merits of capitalism because daddy bezos told me things are getting better"
You can fix ignorance, but you can't fix stupid.
No, to choose ignorance when you don't have to is weak in my eyes. You are not chained to a screen, you can go out and find the truth, they just don't want to, it's weak and should exempt them from failure.
There is no good argument against capitalism. I agree there should be some guardrails and regulation, but it's a matter of how much.
At the core it is capitalism though, and it's the supeeior ecinomic model to anything else.
Lmao gr8 b8 m8
Very true. The stupid will fall in line when it's popular to do so though. You just need a critical mass first, which is the only thing pulling along he democratic establishment at this point, they are seen as the "safe" choice, and it's why they are laser focused on defeating leftists. Beating the republicans is secondary to them.