I’m the chimney sweep now!

  • porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net
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    10 months ago

    shouldn’t we come up with a system where the core values don’t need regulation. it becomes unthinkable to exploit children not because of regulation and enforcement but because the system in itself denies power to exploiters.

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      10 months ago

      Is there any system besides capitalism with regulations we have in developed countries without child labor? Child labor existed in the Soviet Union and in communist China. Historically the idea that children should not perform labor is very recent.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        Are there any developed countries that have moved beyond Capitalism yet? Are you genuinely attributing Capitalism to removing child labor, instead of the workers that organized and fought against it? That’s like giving the US government credit for the Civil Rights movement.

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          10 months ago

          Is your claim that there will be some future utopia without capitalism and without child labor? Sure, that’s something to dream about.

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            10 months ago

            If humanity has failed to move beyond Capitalism and child labor, then humanity lost to the climate crisis or nuked itself to death. The idea that Capitalism is sustainable is Utopian and foolish.

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                10 months ago

                An opinion based off of analyzing data and coming to logical conclusions. I can’t know the future, but I can certainly say that the sun will rise tomorrow morning.

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                    10 months ago

                    Then talk about them or don’t, not sure what just saying “that’s your opinion” and walking away like it’s some revelation does.

      • porcariasagrada@slrpnk.net
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        10 months ago

        you stated that capitalism is human nature and based on reality. none of those statements are true. my job here is done.

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            10 months ago

            i support direct democracy. i think the economical system should be maintained by democracies sustained by a lot more direct democracy processes. even if that economic system is capitalism it should be restrained by a lot more people voting directly on regulation and less on representation.

            i hope i answered your question and i’m sorry for the confusion.

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      10 months ago

      Sure would be nice, but such a system seems to be fundamentally incompatible with human nature and reality.

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        10 months ago

        Seems to be? On what grounds? Do you think humans have a built-in mystical flaw that turns them evil if they share tools?

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          10 months ago

          Thinking that there could be a system that doesn’t require regulations that have to be enforced is just very naive.

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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            10 months ago

            Yes and no. Capitalism requires huge amounts of regulation to not destroy itself, and a system with considerably less regulation could exist if the Workers could represent themselves via ownership.

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        10 months ago

        as if human nature is set in stone but i love the reality argument, as if capitalism is somehow a realistic functioning system. for sure a dreamed up notion of capital is 100% real and not the machinations of generations of trial and error(still on going btw).