compostgoblin@slrpnk.net to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 days agoBut "socialism" is a scary wordslrpnk.netexternal-linkmessage-square292fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: memes@lemmy.world
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minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agobut everyone hates the big companies and the rich people its just that the right has been told that the left are the rich people (and then the left say that the neoliberals are the rich people, etc)
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoDo you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoThe people who are willing to do more unethical stuff to make a profit make more of a profit, and become more powerful as a natural consequence, so the problem is with the system that incentives this and brings it to the top
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoThen I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.
but everyone hates the big companies and the rich people
its just that the right has been told that the left are the rich people (and then the left say that the neoliberals are the rich people, etc)
Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?
The people who are willing to do more unethical stuff to make a profit make more of a profit, and become more powerful as a natural consequence, so the problem is with the system that incentives this and brings it to the top
Then I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.