No one has tried pure capitalism before so this argument isn’t in good faith.
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There is a theorem that relates wealth distribution and individual risk, so this is a great analogy.
Is there any way to avoid capitalism though
While living within it? No.
Your options are too go completely off grid, and homestead. Or to start a revolution and brutally enforce anti capitalist laws.
Even then, you're bound to some system of trade. But if you can cut yourself off from financial institutions you're doing pretty well.
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Maybe not about your main employment, but I don't understand why some people feel forced to do some other things:
- They love web advertisements, get attached to specific products, prefer using company names instead of general words
- e.g. "I'm in Zoom call"; just say "a voice/video call" or whatever, why do you have to advertise the company and perpetuate the mentality that "voice calls" → "Zoom calls“ and that there's only one product people should use
- same with sodas, medicine, browsers, search engines, tissues, copy machines, cleaning products, etc
- Social media posts: they feel the need to advertise themselves (I'm not just talking about work-related stuff); some people can't just post a nice vacation photo, and need to use it as an opportunity to act as influencers etc
- I would say that some types of "I have to do a bad thing to someone else, otherwise they will do it to me" could be classified as capitalistic as well; no, Bob, no one is forcing you to undercut your coworker (except if you work in a company that uses KPIs etc maliciously)
- The mentality that your hobbies can/should be used for profit, and that profit is the main reason anyone would do something that requires some time to do
- I've written some open source stuff (code.gkak.la), and when I mention something I made to some people, their first reaction was "that's great; so how are you going to sell it?"; and when I try to explain about open source (especially for personal scripts etc), they just can't comprehend why would anyone do something like that, if not for profit
- I've seen the same mentality online, around people being makers (e.g. knitting, 3d printing)
- People adding advertisements to their super low-traffic personal blogs, and people arguing about the "lost income opportunity" or sth (??)
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