▲ | Atlas667 a day ago | |||||||
The will of the masses is NEVER enacted. This is what bourgeois capitalism is. Oh you like phones? Well our phone companies require us to directly or indirectly create proxy wars in this region in order to acquire the raw materials necessary. This is the democracy of western nations: policy hidden behind capitalist interests that the people engage with through consumption. Its democracy for the rich not for the millions of us. That's why they NEED to manufacture consent, in order to get you on board with murder and fabricated poverty in order to have goods and services. | ||||||||
▲ | beeflet a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
>Oh you like phones? Well our phone companies require us to directly or indirectly create proxy wars in this region in order to acquire the raw materials necessary. I think that is the will of the masses. I've got this fairphone in my pocket that has a replaceable cobalt-free battery and a replaceable OS for a reasonable price. But people by-and-large don't want fairphones, they want iphones. The third worlders fighting over cobalt don't want peace, they want wealth for themselves. People don't want niche third parties and alternative stuff, they want to be part of a larger cultural group. Captialism is based on individual voluntarism, and the problems you describe are not caused by manufactured sentiment but a lack thereof. The problems are caused by the distributed actions of a silent majority, as opposed to some greater rational plan. | ||||||||
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