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your_huckleberry

@golgaloth - I don't need to contribute, somebody else will do it for me.

- I deserve the output of other people's work, because I exist and I want it.

-My happiness is more important than everyone else.

-I don't owe society anything, because it's not perfect.

28 Oct 2023 at 12:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Joe

@your_huckleberry @golgaloth , society functioned long before capitalism and yes, if you're a miserable sod you're not going to have too many happy people around you, no?

29 Oct 2023 at 6:01 | Open on mastodon.nz
your_huckleberry

@Antigrav Smith invented capitalism the same way that Newton invented gravity. Capitalism and society are inextricably linked. That's why accounting was invented in Mesopotamia not long after agriculture.

maa.org/press/periodicals/conv

The notion that aboriginal peoples didn't have economies or systems of governance comes from the writings of colonizers who saw the native people as savages without sophistication. Colonizers who had a vested interest in perpetuating the offensive "noble savage" myth.

@Antigrav Smith invented capitalism the same way that Newton invented gravity. Capitalism and society are inextricably linked. That's why accounting was invented in Mesopotamia not long after agriculture.

maa.org/press/periodicals/conv

29 Oct 2023 at 14:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Joe

@your_huckleberry , I believe that before capitalism, as we know it today -
one that is rapidly spiraling out of control by syphoning existential needs from the bottom majority to the frivolity laden top few -
we had a sustainable version based on trading...
I should have made that differentiation in my earlier comment.

29 Oct 2023 at 21:55 | Open on mastodon.nz
your_huckleberry

@Antigrav yeah, that's point 4 in The World Owes Me a living manifesto.

29 Oct 2023 at 23:33 | Open on mastodon.social
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