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by BoiledCabbage 3346 days ago
It boils down to this: Capitalism is not the goal of society, it is a tool.

Somewhere in the past few decades we've conflated the two - and a larger portion of our population believe that Capitalism is the goal. It's not, it's a way to achieve our goals. It is efficient, it is effective, it will always have little to no morals and consolidate in the hands of the few. That is not a judgement of the system it is an assessment. No different than stating a hammer will will work well with nails and poorly with screws.

We as a world society (and particularly an American socienty) need to refocus on what our goals of society are. And actively decided when to use and when to rein in specific tools to achieve our goals.

Absent of focusing on goals, our tools become our goals and we get the results we're seeing today.

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As sympathetic as I am to anti-capitalist rabble-rousing, your comment comes off as a canned micro-rant which doesn't relate in any substantial way to the parent.
Your comment is unnecessarily dismissive and inaccurate.

I'll avoid getting into an internet argument, and just leave this quote here.

> tech has become a cesspool of slimy founders + and unbridled capitalism - this needs to stop for the greater good

This was the thread the comment was posted in and it's entirely the topic of discussion.

In the future try to choose more productive ways of describing people's views and engaging in discussion than as 'rabble-rousing' 'rants'.