Post #2681030
2022-12-19 23:30 UTC
@jenniferplusplus@tech.lgbt Anyone who thinks #capitalism is anything more than commerce is implicitly mourning that it became so
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@arcade@catcatnya.com 2022-12-20 05:55
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org yeah? capitalism isn't great... (understatement)
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2022-12-20 15:07
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org @jenniferplusplus@tech.lgbt Since the first uses of the term in the 19th century that has not been what it means. Capitalism is the structuring of society so that capitalists (people who make their living by owning great reserves of capital) extract most of the profits of commerce, excluding workers (people who make their living by working to create the value exchanged in commerce).