• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    Wealth inequality is outrageous but the greater crime is in capitalism’s coercion and deprivation. Look at where it directs our immense oroductive forces, the jobs it makes you take, the people it starves, the earth it salts. Instead of keeping our planet livable by decarbonizing, capitalism commits genocide and makes you a participant. Instead of ensuring food for all it has you work as a redundant cog in a finance scheme to grift money off of people that need healthcare. Instead of letting people simply live independently in their own nation it demands their subjugation and death and bombing lest they interrupt their profitability, and you are given the option of building the bomb, servicing the bomb builders, or being one or two steps removed by business contracts. What is stolen in these ways is a far greater amount of wealth than any billionaire possesses, they are just the few who took on the sociopathic role of top-down profit maximizer. Much of what is stolen is an extinction. It is qualitative and cannot be restored. There are tribes snuffed out, their language and stories and people dead, for profit maximization. Aquifers that could sustain millions poisoned.