Re:A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death
by krapp on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:34AM
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That's not capitalism unless the people making emotional investments are doing so strictly for monetary gain, which doesn't appear to be supported by the article.
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Re:A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death
by nickthemagicman on Friday December 01, 2017 @10:49AM
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We're encouraged in capitalism to spend our limited time developing networks and connections with people who can benefit us financially or career wise.
A true capitalistic value system considers it a waste of time to pursue relationships with simply interesting people with mostly non-capitalizable quality's like good sense of humor, compassion, storytelling...etc.
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The point of the article is that no one is making emotional investments in these people.
Re:A Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death
by krapp on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:27PM
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But we don't live in a "true" capitalistic value system, and most people don't approach their relationships in the game-theoretic way you're describing. So while you're correct about the point of the article, I think you're overstating the influence of capitalist ideology in the general case of human relationships.
Also, pasting the same comment in the thread several times makes it seem as if you don't actually care to respond to what other posters are saying, you just want to spam your thoughts.