[a wide character looks smug with a wide smile]
Your ideology is wrong and can’t work because “human nature” is to exploit others
[a thought bubble is connected to their head]
I really really want to exploit others, exploiting or being exploited is the only way I can picture society please God I play that you let me become an exploiter I dream of it every day
It might not be that the person wants to exploit others but that exploitation is the norm in their experience in life.
We’ve said the word exploit so many fucking times they’ve lost all damn meaning!
I apologize for the exploitives.
And must be excused by intellectual lacunae?
The one that gets me is “Without the profit motive, no one would innovate.”
Like, my dude, have you ever met an innovative person? You can’t pay them to stop. It’s a compulsion. Working for money is only impeding their innovative capacity.
Or “Who would go through the years of training to be a doctor or engineer?”. Uh, the good doctors and engineers who do it because it’s their passion. I don’t want to go to a doctor who only did it for the money.
I mean. That’s exactly why all these systems fail. The shitty people get ahead by exploitation or breaking the rules.
Right, and imo most people just want to get along. We just need a way to defend the commons from the shitty people rather than make them trillionaires.
Well, the serial killer problem became much less pronounced
Funny how they all just disappeared
Aka republicans
aka Democrats aka every career politician in existence They all serve capital in the end
The best reason to have children is for the free labor on your farm. Don’t live on a farm? Force them to make shit you can sell on Etsy. Gotta make a profit somehow.
Uh, NO, the best reason to have children is that the line must go up and the social security system is going to be partially unfunded within six years!
I think it’s not that everyone wants to exploit, but if the opportunity exists and there are insufficient systems to discourage it, then some will. As demonstrated by [wide gesture at everything]
You can think something is human nature, but also think that you’re above that nature
I am above drinking, eating, and defecating.
I will proceed to live the rest of my life without doing any of those things.
You sure will!
Just other people. Obviously I’m better than them. Maybe better than the gods.
Bad@jlai.lu exploited me to comment
That’s bullshit. Along with the seven deadly sins there are seven living virtues. You have free will and you decide what good or bad shit you get up to in life. Although there are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes we are shunted in specific directions towards the chute, just like cattle, and most choice goes out the window.
American leftists becoming addicted to extracting social capital this last decade kind of low-key has me thinking he might be right. Not that it’s impossible to live that way but the will to power is just too strong for egalitarian notions to ever become a significant thing again.
We’ve got like a dormant virus in our souls that was just waiting for the internet to exist and for money to get low
There’s no thing like an American leftist because there’s no left in the US.
And who thinks otherwise are just dumb mouth shitters who only had US propaganda for
mealspasture all their lives.Well, I thought you had an accurate take up until the tourettes goblin made you reply to yourself there. Something tells me your own ability to make anything good in the world might be a vestigial non-prority next to impotently talking shit on the internet. So at least we have that in common
Don’t ever compare your greedy cynicism with my accurate take on such brain dead society divided between bleach drinkers and those who expect voting out genociders (to make other genociders take place).
“☹️ I’m not like other internet snark idiots. I fight people on the internet for real”wait I think I just realized who you are. my bad, I enjoy reading you fight with other people but obviously couldn’t take the heat myself. Carry on.
What does extracting social capital mean?
Like using other people or their conditions in a social setting to benefit yourself. Think of like how desperate people on the internet are to be seen saying the correct things in front of the correct people.
Or the phenomenon of dunking. When you dunk on somebody on the internet you’re extracting a social value from them. It isn’t as easy of a thing to do IRL or before the internet age but here we’re operating in a marketplace of attention. Capitalism has infiltrated our very social interactions so we act like capitalists even when there’s no money involved.
How is this measured?
Vibes mostly. Tracking karma like reddit encouraged people to act like they’re in a market but it wasn’t a real measurement in any way other than affecting the sort of posts and comments. I suppose if you wanted to put a number on it it’s probably the number of people a given interaction reaches. Or maybe the amount of time people spend engaging with it.
