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by robertlagrant 1097 days ago
> hedonic treadmill will always exist in capitalism

It beats "they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work".

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If you believe soviet style communist dictatorship is the only alternative to the current state of capitalistic exploitation in the West, propaganda already defeated you as a force for change.
Please stop talking like this. You're not in a crusade against a monolithic force. You're raging against a billion individuals playing, generally speaking, within the rules that governments set for them.
You reach for false dichotomies very easily. You may not like what I'm saying but don't ask me to shut up. Why do you immediately denounced me as being in a quixotesque saga? What are you afraid of thinking?
> You reach for false dichotomies very easily

A billion individual choices and a monolithic force is not a false dichotomy.

> You may not like what I'm saying but don't ask me to shut up

No one has done this.

> Why do you immediately denounced me as being in a quixotesque saga?

Nor this.

> What are you afraid of thinking?

Sigh.

>> You may not like what I'm saying but don't ask me to shut up

> No one has done this.

"Please stop talking like this."

>> Why do you immediately denounced me as being in a quixotesque saga?

> Nor this.

"You're not in a crusade against a monolithic force. You're raging against a billion individuals (...)"

Own up to what you said, at the very least.