• Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Capitalism isn’t a system of morality. Or at least it isn’t supposed to be.

    The fact that people think more money = moral is one of the largest problems in the world right now.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I chose to express it like that by design. My contention is that capitalism is, in fact, or at the very least de facto, a system of morality. It promotes wealth as an indicator of higher moral stature. It has superseded rule of democracy, as wealth has been assigned itself as a metric by which the efficacy of individual civil participation is measured and the path of society determined.

      In other words, money equals power, and possessing money/power is indicative of a higher moral. Echoes of medieval times…