Completely opposite perspectives on capitalism, but both true.

[jhonny9546]

Different perspectives make you understand how much at the same time we try to be "animals" but how much at the same time we would like to be more "human"

In favor

Money IS freedom.

Anti-capitalists usually ignore the entire human history, where every day was a struggle for survival.

Yes, of course, you didn't have to make money to live.

But you were forced to hunt, farm, and so on, to survive.

We just moved the goal posts.

Before you needed food, now you need money to buy food.

It's not that the money changed anything for the worse.

“Rich” and “poor” existed long before money existed.

It's an ignorant way of looking at the world.

Against

As someone who has worked in marketing most of my life, it has only recently hit me hard how artificial and inauthentic everything is. 99% of our lives exist for one reason: to make you spend money. All experiences are curated to make you feel something; each piece of pottery is just emulating some "authentic" handmade cultural piece from a specific country; clothing styles make you belong to a specific group of people, and this permeates everything – everything is an emulation or fiction of a real thing. We even have a fake friend in AI and chatbots… there is very little authenticity left. And with this knowledge, it becomes waaaay easier to spend less money, but at the same time, it just highlights how artificial our lives have become. And the more I think about it, the more I notice how everything is designed for that purpose.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

To all the super geniuses on the board:

What do "capitalism," "Schrodinger's Cat," "Austrian economics," "The Big Bang," and "Led Zeppelin" all have in common?

 

[BillyPilgrim]

To all the super geniuses on the board:

What do "capitalism," "Schrodinger's Cat," "Austrian economics," "The Big Bang," and "Led Zeppelin" all have in common?

The hammer of the gods smashing sh1t up?

 

[AureliusMaximus]

To all the super geniuses on the board:

What do "capitalism," "Schrodinger's Cat," "Austrian economics," "The Big Bang," and "Led Zeppelin" all have in common?

They are all names of Led Zeppelin songs.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[inquisitor]

To all the super geniuses on the board:

What do "capitalism," "Schrodinger's Cat," "Austrian economics," "The Big Bang," and "Led Zeppelin" all have in common?

I'm seeing the small letter i.

 

[MatureDJ]

The central thesis of capitalism is that there is value in something in which resources have been properly spent to create - with this value being that it can create more value. I think that the meme of capitalism being the economics of choice is just a result of the fact that these choices tend to be those that shoot for optimal value (i.e., proper choices). Of course for land, the "spending" is simply those activities that had originally acquired the land (i.e., by force).