| ▲ | Psillisp 3 hours ago | |
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. | ||