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Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by lonelappde on Saturday April 25, 2020 @09:28PM (#22983419)
Without the government providing free food and healthcare, consumer capitalism is all we have to sustain ourselves. It's easier to give freedom pursuit of property than to give out property directly.
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Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by paulryanrogers on Saturday April 25, 2020 @11:07PM (#22984008)
Capitalism doesn't have to be totally focused on unsustainable consumption. With healthy and un-captured regulation (protecting people not companies from their competition) markets can still do much good. We don't have to live in a survival of the fittest economy.
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Re:Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off ... by dleslie on Saturday April 25, 2020 @10:05PM (#22983650)
o.O

I have family that live most of the year in self-sustaining collectivist communities in the jungles of Peru.

I wouldn't choose that life, but there's definitely alternatives to consumer capitalism.

Cuba, despite _generations_ of _severe_ trade sanctions is a good example of this.

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