• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Socialism is great as a concept, basically means putting people before capital. Capitalism is the reverse.

    That’s not even slightly true, but human nature makes it end up being that way. We’re real good at coming up with isms incompatible with our nature, so they never work as planned, often with irony too.

    • Triasha@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Ah yes, the biblical “human nature is flawed so we can’t ever make the world better” argument.

      Ignoring the 1000’s of years of humans making the world better.

      We used to have child sacrifice and we don’t anymore. We used to have chattel slavery and we don’t anymore.

      Our economies can get better and if someone tells you otherwise they are lying to preserve their own power.