• @venusaur@lemmy.world
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    02 days ago

    But if the citizens didn’t fund the company’s greed, they wouldn’t exist. Plenty of examples of things people don’t need that they continue to buy, and support unethical business operations leading to harm.

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      That’s some capitalism = commerce bullshit. Capitalism only perverts commerce to its own end of allowing a single person to “own” everything. Commerce existed for over 10,000 years before capitalism existed, and the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, even said that once capitalism has achieved its goals, which we did in the late 1800s according to Adam Smith, that it would be absolutely imperative to transition to a more “socially equitable” [sic] and “sustainable” form of commerce under a direct democratic framework.

      Try using some actual facts rather than feelings in your next reply, also actually read The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and Wealth of Nations. If you are actually literate, you should be able to plow through both texts in two two to three hour readings.

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        2 days ago

        This comment is so pretentious and yet so dumb. Nice job. Capitalism only works if people are spending money. Fact. There’s no getting around that. If people elect to spend money on goods they don’t need from companies they know are harming people then they are responsible. Should they not be “Luigied?”