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Utopia is a blatant lie, isn't it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 16 hours ago by SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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Here's a link to another post where I expressed my thoughts if you're interested -- https://lemmy.world/post/36592343

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Because capitalism is a control system that selects for those that are most profitable. If you don't grow, you die.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You're making a distinction between

Seeking power for profit
Seeking profit for power

How would we empirically tell which is happening?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago

By determining how the base mode of production prioritizes them. It doesn't matter what an individual prefers, ie we could say Musk as an individual seeks power, but in doing so has to satisfy the laws of capitalism and achieve higher and higher profits to maintain it. Musk isn't primary, the system he has to abide by is. Capitalists aren't the masters of capitalism, as Roderic Day says they are the high priests of capital that best abide its laws, ie the pursuit of profit.