• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    That’s generally when I stress that capitalism has no room for morality, that capitalism and morals aren’t simply ideologically opposed, but are actually mechanically incompatible. “And what happens to those good, socially responsible girlbosses when they go up against the ruthless crony capitalists? They adapt or die”

    • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Simply put, whatever a system incentivizes, is what people are going to do. No amount of morality is going to overwrite the profit and growth motive. Morals either get tossed to the wayside or, more likely, the concept of what is moral gets reformed in the likeness of the system.