• thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Somewhere, something changed and money became all, get it all so you can consume. People stopped caring unless money was involved and they were getting it.

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        4 hours ago

        Correction. The money must be obtained without morality or ethics… And laws are written to be both be worked around or punished with fines, hence making them an operating expense.

        The only crime that is punished is those done by people with limited or no political or economic leverage. This is why burglary and shoplifting is heavily punished but a company bankrupting entire communities is not.

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          43 minutes ago

          Capitalism has always been like this to one degree or another. Maybe its inherent cruelty is affecting more people than it ever has, but it has always been cruel to poor and marginalized groups.