Americans will really get on their knees and say “thank you” as the gun is pressed against their heads, fully believing they’ll enter paradise once the trigger is pulled.
Wow they must all be antisemites who need to be sent to El Salvadorian concentration camps! (Never mind the open white supremacists with Tiki torches marching through the streets shouting “Jews will not replace us!”, those guys are free speech advocates!!!!)
That’s capitalism baby. It’s a system for turning anything and everything into a thing with a monetary value - and those who are the best at exploitation rise to the top. Narcissists, psychopaths, those who lack any kind of empathy or desire for a sustainable future.
I didn’t watch the whole video but if the connection actually dropped you would think that the livestream and everything would have dropped too. Not just the game.
I remember when capitalists first claimed this idea. It was seen as ridiculous, but then got pushed through. So maybe it’s something that you’ve been conditioned to or grown up with accepting as the way things are.
I don’t think evil is part of the human condition.
Humans have complex language, and are capable of learning, adjusting behaviour, and building culture over time.
Capitalism is a system that teaches and enforces greed and exploitation. It’s natural for endpoint is the destruction of our environment and the enslavement of humanity.
But if we lived under a different system that was not capitalism and instead fostered sustainable, egalitarianism, while also allowing us to cooperatively build technology to improve our lives, I believe this is something that we could build a culture around. It’s not that we’re pre-programmed a certain way and always destined to fall into the same trap…. Just when you create and enforce a system that expects infinite growth within a finite system, that forces people to compete over and hoard resources then of course you’re going to get greed, exploitation, and eventually collapse.
Another world and another way of being is possible if we build it over time.
It’s my eternal hope that the reddit puns never make their way to Lemmy. They’re always so bad.