Comment by lotsofpulp
5 years ago
The ideal goal for everyone is getting paid (in increasing amounts) on a regular basis, regardless of “-ism”.
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> The ideal goal for everyone is getting paid (in increasing amounts) on a regular basis, regardless of “-ism”.
no, that parenthesis, (in increasing amounts), is a feature of capitalism, not inherent to all human motivation. the need for ever increasing income stems from the need to provide capital investors with a return.
I would wager the ideal goal of the vast majority of people would be increasing income due to wanting to consume more and more, for various reasons, but at its most basic, for the reason of attracting mates.
This is a complete straw man with no scientific basis at all. Desire for constantly increasing consumption could just easily be an artifact of culture. There's no reason to believe it's biological
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Sorry, that's bullshit. Most sexual behaviors are culturally conditioned and empirically money doesnt make men or women linearly and indefinitely more attracted.
What is attractive is social status - in capitalism this is linked mostly to wealth but that's not a given at all. Another thing that's attractive is stability, but that doesn't have anything to do with consumption, in today's world it means having stable access to housing, ideally owning it, mainly.
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