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by ffsm8
766 days ago
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It's actually a Tragedy of the Commons situation. If very few people think that way, everyone is better off and the society is a better place. But in such a place, the people that have this mindset will absolutely be more successful then if they didn't have it. At this point we're decades into this flavor of capitalism and the profiteering has long since become the norm, sadly. And before someone says "it's always been like that"... No, it hasn't. Even in pop culture from a few decades ago you've got the characters taking great pride in providing good products for great prices. Nowadays our culture mostly makes fun of people like that and they're portrayed as targets to be exploited... |
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- What if everyone shared and cooperated and got along?
- Well then someone that wanted to take advantage of people would come along and make a big mess of it!
- Well what's your proposal then, should we stop those people, outlaw their greed and avarice?
- Hmm... no I think we should reward it and build our entire system around getting greed to produce useful outcomes.
- Ok, so we've been doing that for a while and the people that would have taken advantage of the commons have privatized the commons, taken full advantage of that, purchased the government, and essentially rule over us while we all fight for crumbs...
- But you've got an iPhone, so it's basically working great