| I don't understand why you would get downvotes. Maybe it's because you're making a general point, non-specific to the topic at hand (Fediverse). Or maybe it's because Capitalism is the dominant ideology around these parts (Earth). It's obvious to many, who've seen through the motive of greed, that collaboration yields more "economic" results. Economy can be a synonym for efficiency, but in modern usage is the definition of a caste system where groups exist primarily to extract the blood of those doing the real work. But people practice doublethink, equating lord-serf "economies" with effectiveness, because greed (the motive to serve ones own interests) == good, and because profit (the act of taking excess value generated, for oneself) == good. Because somehow a selfish motive makes the work legitimate, because that's how "the world works". Or because there are examples of useful work having happened under this system. Until they suffer for it many won't be able to see the problem, but luckily the vampires get more and more brazen, to the point where even people living life "the right way" have began stuggling in many cases. So when the previously-sheltered upper castes begin to bleed out into the ever-gaping maw of moloch [0], there will be change in perception. The Capitalists are insatiable (luckily [?]), which I think will eventually undo the idea. It will take more blood, and more time, but I feel it's starting to happen. All this to say, that you are not alone in your vantage. And here's Ginsberg excerpted, on what I interpret to be this exact topic (which granted, is only my personal interpretation). "Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!" [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl |