Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Buy Canadian@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months agoWhat about owning american stocks?message-squaremessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up154file-text
arrow-up154message-squareWhat about owning american stocks?Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Buy Canadian@lemmy.caEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelowside@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 months agoCapitalism doesn’t mean being an asshole. One can be a capitalist and also a decent human being. It’s an economic system not a moral one. Using it as an excuse for being a vile human being is just an easy out.
minus-squarefolkrav@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-23 months agoReally, the “yet you participate” argument? We live in a capitalist world, fuck am I supposed to do, let my kids live in the streets?
minus-squarefolkrav@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-23 months agoWe reuse the right’s arguments amongst ourselves, now? What “fuck you I got mine” am I doing, and how do I “sacrifice” the very system we’re stuck in?
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Capitalism doesn’t mean being an asshole. One can be a capitalist and also a decent human being. It’s an economic system not a moral one. Using it as an excuse for being a vile human being is just an easy out.
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Really, the “yet you participate” argument? We live in a capitalist world, fuck am I supposed to do, let my kids live in the streets?
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We reuse the right’s arguments amongst ourselves, now? What “fuck you I got mine” am I doing, and how do I “sacrifice” the very system we’re stuck in?
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