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Re:The racist double standards of international development by agustif on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:33AM (#23830022)
Our history seems to celebrate all past conquests as great feats by super-human hero-like figures, when in reality they were sackers, enslavers, and robbers...

heck from the Egyptian Pyramids to Europe's castle's to Abu dhabi's big buildings.

It seems all of them are tainted with being built with a slave workforce...

Same goes for any multinational corporation exerting resources from their low-wage employees and the countries where they operate.

Sad thing is we, as a society, will probably celebrate/admire those who extract more.

Capitalism is a fucked up mindset, it has brought us to here, and that can be said to have some merits by itself, but I'm not sure it will get us much far ahead as it is...

Re:The racist double standards of international development by xupybd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:33AM (#23830334)
What's the better alternative to capitalism?
Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:08AM (#23830509)
Something that is better at solving inequality. Something that aims towards egalitarianism, not property ownership.

Capitalism have had a couple of hundreds of years or so now, and it still haven't succeeded in this, even with all the technological progress since.

Re:The racist double standards of international development by xupybd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @03:31PM (#23836624)
Is egalitarianism and inequality the most desirable outcome of an economic system?

I'd argue it's not. I'd argue prosperity is. That is to say if the poor get far richer than they were and that keeps happening I don't care if the rich get richer faster. Especially if true class mobility is present in the system. That way the poor are trading places with the rich.

Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:29PM (#23838167)
You rarely see people on the bottom of the ladder argue that inequality isn't that important. Prosperity doesn't say anything about how the resources are shared, so yes, 1890ths England was surely one of the most prosperous countries of the time, but at the same time children lived in Oliver Twist like misery.

The problem is that it's becoming increasingly clear that Capitalism fails miserably at redistributing resources fairly.

Re:The racist double standards of international development by xupybd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:12PM (#23838657)
Capitalism doesn't aim to redistribute resources fairly. It aims to allocate them effectively. Those that find efficient means of production acquire more resources. This cause more effective use of resources available and thus more resources become available for everyone.

Yes pure capitalism fails some people and a mix of small amounts of socialism help those in need. But prosperity does far more to help the poor than equality. Extreme inequality is bad

Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:32PM (#23838876)
You're just parroting free market propaganda and still have the stomach to dismiss the author as an ideolog.
Re:The racist double standards of international development by xupybd on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:57PM (#23839115)
Ok so do you have a better system than capitalism?

I'm saying that absolute wealth is more important than equality. Do you have a counter to that or a system that can promote prosperity and more even wealth distribution?

Re:The racist double standards of international development by jahaja on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:20PM (#23839309)
Yes, to extend democracy to the economic sphere.