• DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    That’s like saying “everything happens for a reason” to someone whose whole family has just been murdered.

    No. Capitalism was never necessary.

    • bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, but you’re talking to an authoritarian, so lots of people being hurt for the benefit of the few is always “necessary”

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      6 months ago

      But nothing is actually necessary. It depends on what you want to achieve.

      The speed of innovation might have gotten a big impulse by capitalism; I’m not sure if we’d technologically be where we are now otherwise. Of course one could argue that we do not need tech in its current form, which is fair.