And it permeates to other aspects. Directly and indirectly.
Capitalism is the root cause of bad mental health.
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But many of us would not like to admit that trying to stay afloat in this cutthroat capitalistic world is seriously deteriorating our mental health. add social media and the Internet and how everything is amplified...commodified and and sold back to us, how are we all not suffering from some form of mild mental illness?
imagine a rat running in a wheel chasing a picture of a block of cheese forever but never catching it
average American chasing a life they will never have
average American chasing a life they will never have
And then with the increase in rents the increase in the cost of living but the stagnation in wages...and high gas prices...good paying jobs being kept out of the vicinity of the poor...high costs of cars...this pandemic and recession.
Its easy to see why more people are depressed in this country.
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I Really Mean It
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Nope. Being broke is.
You better enjoy capitalism because without it a few million billion of us wouldn't exist and may not even be able to coexist in a world without capitalism and 10 billion people.
Populations have literally been created because of prosperity.
In the absence of, somebody may have to go. Or can we have unlimited population growth and unlimited sustinence to feed everyone ?
This is probably why these so called ruling cacs believe in population control.
You have populations that were created as a byproduct of criminal activity at the highest levels. Human trafficking for starters. When the money trickles down people eat and create more people but you exist because of an advanced lick that's way over your head
Populations have literally been created because of prosperity.
In the absence of, somebody may have to go. Or can we have unlimited population growth and unlimited sustinence to feed everyone ?
This is probably why these so called ruling cacs believe in population control.
You have populations that were created as a byproduct of criminal activity at the highest levels. Human trafficking for starters. When the money trickles down people eat and create more people but you exist because of an advanced lick that's way over your head
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UpAndComing
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CACs have convinced Black people that learning about and seeking wealth is a bad thing. Hating Capitalism is basically a religion at this point
They have taught us to be 2nd class citizens
They have taught us to be 2nd class citizens
Raphaello
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Hate these woe is me threads. The truth is you'd be a depressed loser in any economic system.
This makes no sense at all. Practically all the white societal forces out there ENCOURAGE black people to seek wealth to the point that it's a religion. All the advertising, all the media, all the corporate world, all the educational world....even the churches have become pro-capitalist. Pro-capitalism has been a religion in the USA for over 100 years, to the point where Black men who advocated for anything else (including the one in my avi) were put onto a watchlist, tracked, harassed, even killed. What world are you even talking about?
Complete opposite of the truth - Capitalism is what REQUIRES constant population growth and constant economic growth to feed itself or the entire thing collapses, but the constant population and economic growth is what will cause the entire planetary ecosystem to collapse. How the fukk would capitalism allow the world to support more people when it's simultaneously encouraging every person in that world to keep burning through more and more goods?
You didn't think that shyt through at all before you wrote it.
No, it's all of capitalism because it rates human life by the dollar instead of by the worth of the life.
* In capitalism, people with money get more money solely because they're rich, while people without money lose money solely because they're poor. If you're rich then you can constantly get richer off of interest, while if you're poor then you constantly get poor having to pay the interest on your debts. So it ensures money constantly flows from the poor to the rich and makes disparities greater and greater.
That's why capitalism is a constant cycle where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, until there's an economic collapse, then the cycle restarts.
* In capitalism, people with more homes than they need (landlords) make money solely because they're rich enough to own land, while people too poor to own land (renters) lose money solely because they're poor. Once again, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer solely because of their pre-existing positions in life.
* In capitalism, people rich enough to own businesses (bosses) make money solely because they're in charge, while people too poor to own businesses (workers) get screwed on wages solely because they're not in charge. Even if the business owner isn't doing any work, his profits can keep going up so long as he just pays the worker less money than the value they actually bring to the job.
* While the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer solely due to their preexisting place in life, virtually every societal good that matters (food, housing, health care, education, treatment by the justice system, political power) is distributed in accordance with how rich you are. So the rich, solely by being rich, get better food, better health care, better education, better housing, better treatment by the justice system, and more political power, which in turn allows their children to have even more advantages than they did. And it keeps going.
No one who gives a shyt about the Black-White wealth gap or reparations can keep caping for capitalism, because capitalism ENSURES that the gaps will remain and in fact will get larger and larger. Even if you gave reparations tomorrow, many black people would have to use it to just pay off their debts or acquire the shyt they already didn't have due to the system, and after the money was used up they'd still be behind in all the other ways that capitalism had purposely put them behind, then over time the engine of capitalism would work to ensure that the gap widened and widened again.
It's the most explicitly designed system to automatically enhance the power of the rich and keep shyt that way just by virtue of the mechanisms of the system.
Capitalism is a virus. Which is what you just described
A virus needs new cells in order to replicate and survive. It consumes everything until nothing is left. It will mutate in order to survive. It spreads from one life form to the next.
And that’s what capitalism is.
Raphaello
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What's your alternative? Socialism? Communism? Who owns most of society's assets?