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RE: So, you hate money...
"Had you grown up in a society that gave you whatever you needed to be happy in return for 20k hours of your life in productive labor, would you then accept the crappy deal offered by crapitalism?"
That is a slippery slope. "Society" is not capable of providing happiness to EVERYONE at the same time. We would have to be robots. There is nothing in nature that is "fair". Why should we expect fairness?
Are you saying that the level of happiness we get now is acceptable?
You are ok with how the folks in Homs, Syria have been treated by the status quo?
Take a look at the drone footage and think how many of the families that lived in those homes before they were turned into rubble just wanted to live peacefully in their wage slavery.
The status quo denied them even that.
We should expect 'fairness' because we are capable of rational thinking.
Just because rule by force is how it has been for most of recorded HIStory doesnt mean we arent capable of doing better than we are now.
I agree that society isnt going to make 100% of the people happy 100% of the time, but that doesnt preclude it from eradicating 100% of the poverty and 99% of the wars and humantrafficking.
Fairness is a subjective term. It is unrealistic to expect it.
Under crapitalism's rules i agree.
Its a dog eat dog system.
However, in a rational system it will be the status quo.
I don't actually know anyone who thinks their worldview is irrational.
Of course not, if they knew the difference they would change their opinions,...
So, tell me, do you like how the people of Homs, Syria and Yemen have been treated?
Do you consider it rational?
Just the price you pay for being on the wrong side of naked aggression?
One more crapitalistically craptastic day?
When confronted with the evidence of their irrationality, most folks, not all, alter their viewpoints.
I think it will be hard to find folks that support murdering little kids for profit, but how many morons are cheering the drone strikes?
It's an information war.