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by dragonwriter 2485 days ago
> The way capitalism is supposed to work is that consumers (the capitalist synonym for “people”)

“Consumer” isn't a synonym for people in capitalism, it's an economic role that all people assume in capitalism, but not in all interactions. (“Laborer” and “capitalist” are similar, though slightly less universal, roles; because they are less universal, the degree to which one tends to assume them also define economic classes in capitalism.)