• traceur201@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Lots of people are better off for science, it’s the capitalists that ask us to wield it against others

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        3 days ago

        Socio-economic models have to do with pretty much everything that happens in a society. They define the preferred end goal of most actions. In feudalism it would be to better expand and defend the territory of your liege, for example.

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          What I meant is that wielding new science and technology against people is in no way unique to capitalism. Every system we’ve ever tried has done that at one point.

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            No one said it’s unique to that particular system. As I said feudalism would do the same for different reasons

            But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to have a system that disincentivises harming others and even if it’s implemented it doesn’t mean no one will be harmed.

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                2 days ago

                He did not say it’s the only system where it happens

                It seems he was just saying that in the current socio-economic model for most of the planet the elite of that system (the “capitalists”) push for that behaviour, not that it wouldn’t happen under any other

                If I say I get wet when it’s raining outside, I’m not implying I can’t get wet during a sunny day (I might just have bad luck and someone dumps water out of a window)