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How capitalism works
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
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capitalism is great for capitalists, they live like gods
Completely true of the public-facing capitalists, who effectively serve as PR for their class.
It's because they realize something as they age: For all their wealth, they are still mortal, their physical bodies will decline, and their egotistical, narcissistic lifetime will ultimately amount to absolutely nothing as they rot in the ground and cease existing like everyone else.
Mortality puts things into perspective for those people because they're driven by a philosophical imperative that's borderline pathological in nature:
Donald Trump watched the video of himself almost getting headshot on repeat, 9 times a day. Some said it was PTSD, but that's assuming a lot.
Elon Musk is quoted as saying in The Atlantic that he's "rigged for war".
Well, what war? War against who? Against what?
"Escaping from the matrix seems like "a war against reality itself".
We can only be so lucky that none of those fucks will ever attain apotheosis or immortality no matter how hard they try.
Maybe that's why they're so bent on destroying the planet -- if they can't have it, so can't you.
There was a quote from one of them the other day talking about being unable to sleep well because he's constantly afraid of people coming after him for what he's got. If only there were a way to remove that target from your back...
It's very hard to be a capitalist, you have to scam people and lie to get good deals
The majority of capitalists pay people to do that, they've never worked.
Apparently as long as you have someone else do the immoral things on your behalf, its all gravy. Free will and all right? They could have just not done the evil things that I paid them to do.