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Psillisp | 10 days ago

Capitalism's existence is actively turning the screws on humanity. The screws of Meta are a lot more refined than the ones used by the Slave Trade Monopoly of the Dutch West India Company but the screws persist.

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Gormo|10 days ago

But "capitalism" doesn't actually exist as such -- it's just a concept that represents patterns of human behavior that stem from human beings' pre-existing motivations inclinations.

Treating descriptive models as the causal factors behind the things they're describing is a reification fallacy.

pamcake|10 days ago

Thank you for making it clearer for myself why it irks me when "capitalism" is used this way.