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hdgs76 3 hours ago

Wall Street has been rewarding morally detached leadership for decades using the language of rationality, math and science. Ask them what their source of morality is and their textbook answer is its mathematically inefficient.

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Psillisp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Capitalism's existence is actively turning the screws on humanity. The screws of Meta are a lot more refined than the ones used by the Slave Trade Monopoly of the Dutch West India Company but the screws persist.

Gormo an hour ago | parent [-]

But "capitalism" doesn't actually exist as such -- it's just a concept that represents patterns of human behavior that stem from human beings' pre-existing motivations inclinations.

Treating descriptive models as the causal factors behind the things they're describing is a reification fallacy.