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1. 21asdffdsa12 · 1789625927 · focus · HN ↗

   Look at life, or its systemic counterpart capitalism. Look at that attempt at an exponential. In that curve is all the cruelties, all the danger, all the colonialism, by eating other curves, all the failure because physics is linear on a sphere in the sun.

   Everytime somebody tries to emotionalize any discourse around any of these topics, look at the defining curve and think for yourself - "yeah, thats life, still preferable to death." - then go and solve that problem, or go an be absolved from that problem. Any vital system is expansive, the trees colonialize the grass by throwing shade. Equality - and thus peace can only be reached by having a equality of arms, by copying working mechanisms.

   1. tovej · 1789626064 · focus · HN ↗

      Capitalism is not the equivalent of life, it's the equivalent of cancer. It forces uncontrolled growth within the system.

      1. 21asdffdsa12 · 1789643471 · focus · HN ↗

         Uncontrolled growth within a system- sounds like nature to me.

         1. tovej · 1789726702 · focus · HN ↗

            Growth is checked by balancing processes in nature. Every "exponential" in nature is actually a sigmoid. Growth is a means in nature, in shareholder capitalism, it is an end.

            Shareholder capitalism explicitly ignores natural constraints in order to chase a constant rate of growth. That's what cancer does, it eats up resources from other cells in the organism in order to do nothing but grow, killing the organism in the process.

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