• Christian@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      I don’t remember where I read this quote originally and I can only paraphrase it, but observing people living in a capitalist society and concluding that human nature is self-centeredness and greed is equivalent to observing workers in a factory that is poisoning their lungs and concluding that human nature is to cough.

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        19 days ago

        That’s a nice quote, thank you. I looked into it. It’s by Andrew Collier:

        To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism, is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough.