• Widget@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m mostly trying to address the first part

    It’s a requirement for people to suffer for others to get ahead.

    It is absolutely not a requirement. It’s a very common opinion that people hold, and from what I’ve seen it tends to lead to people to end up with extreme right-wing opinions and an us-vs.-them mentality for literally every aspect of their lives, leading to racism, sexism, transphobia, etc.

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      1 year ago

      Dude, it’s literally how capitalism is built. Where do you think we get our cheap oil, chocolates, clothes, iphones, rare earth minerals etc from? The wealth of the west is built upon the suffering of the third world. And as I said in my previous comment, it doesn’t look like things will change anytime soon.

      You’re doing the same thing again, conflating the way things are, with the way things have to be. I don’t think it should be this way, I’m just acknowledging how the world currently looks.

      People who fall into right wing views are the ones who believe the world should be unfair and you should push other people down. I think the world can and should be better but closing your eyes and pretending the horrors of capitalism doesn’t exist is just stupid and wont help you build a better world.