Yeah, the profit motive makes it literally impossible to improve. Human nature is trash. The only hope we have is to form institutions. But in the United States anyhow, that’s not in style. What is in style? “Fuck you, I got mine”
How is it human nature when it’s literally the system that is the problem? This is not about individuals, but about systems, specifically the profit motive
Competition for the most profit under capitalism is literally the driving factor for all of this. If you don’t do it, someone else will take your place and do it instead
(Not who responded to you, but) I agree with you when you put it as “the worst of human nature.” I take issue with the idea that all of human nature is trash.
The systems we live in absolutely bring out the worst in people because it drives desperation. Desperate people will do what they must no matter how they hurt people, and the whole “hurt people hurt people” then runs rampant.
But human nature also contains the helpers, community, love, and so much more. We need systems that encourage those things, not to write off all our problems as just how we are.
Yeah I am with you actually. I should’ve written “can be trash” really. there’s a lot of good in people but the worst people tend to seize power unfortunately. Hence the shitty systems that make even good people into worse people
Yeah, the profit motive makes it literally impossible to improve. Human nature is trash. The only hope we have is to form institutions. But in the United States anyhow, that’s not in style. What is in style? “Fuck you, I got mine”
How is it human nature when it’s literally the system that is the problem? This is not about individuals, but about systems, specifically the profit motive
Competition for the most profit under capitalism is literally the driving factor for all of this. If you don’t do it, someone else will take your place and do it instead
You’re missing the point entirely. Which was that the current system is just letting the worst of human nature run wild
(Not who responded to you, but) I agree with you when you put it as “the worst of human nature.” I take issue with the idea that all of human nature is trash.
The systems we live in absolutely bring out the worst in people because it drives desperation. Desperate people will do what they must no matter how they hurt people, and the whole “hurt people hurt people” then runs rampant.
But human nature also contains the helpers, community, love, and so much more. We need systems that encourage those things, not to write off all our problems as just how we are.
Yeah I am with you actually. I should’ve written “can be trash” really. there’s a lot of good in people but the worst people tend to seize power unfortunately. Hence the shitty systems that make even good people into worse people