• 4grams@awful.systems
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    7 hours ago

    What got us here is a complicated but simple story. Those without morals have no problem cheating the system and using other people. Capitalism rewards this behavior so it as inevitable that the unscrupulous will continue to vacuum up the money and power. We are experiencing the end game of this social construct.

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      22 minutes ago

      You can’t blame everything on “capitalism.” We’ve done the same thing for centuries.

      The problem is that the world has given a unfair advantage to some people. It really boils down to poor laws and regulations causing havoc.