The teen mental illness epidemic is international

Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @11:10AM (#38940122)

Capitalism (an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit) was invented prior to written history so the reformation only exists in the context of private property being a core assumption of society. That assumption is NEW in the history of humanity, the concept of "property" has only existed for about 50,000 years

The protestant reformation then was an attempt to wrest property away from the catholic organization and distribute it. The goal being to eliminate the primary economic organization and "democratize" it.

The concept of hoarding property flowed from scarcity anxieties that are only socially maintained and hoarding property is the root issue

You can read my proof here: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by chasd00 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:07PM (#38941939)

anti-capitalism ideas, so great they're mandatory and a wall built around you so you can't flee to somewhere else - everywhere it's been tried

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:17PM (#38942012)

I’m sorry that you’re ignorant of every single indigenous culture but that’s really not my problem

No matter, you’ll simply make the following argument: that might makes right because those indigenous cultures couldn’t stand up to the genocidal domination tactics of property based thought right?

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by HideousKojima on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @04:49PM (#38943730)

I know this may come as a shock, so you may want to sit down for this one: those indigenous tribes and cultures were genociding each other for millennia before Adam Smith ever wrote The Wealth of Nations.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:24PM (#38944273)

Do you realize you responded precisely in the way I described a response to this would be?

This is how perfectly predictable this argument is.

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Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international by HideousKojima on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:38PM (#38945758)

And yet predictable != inaccurate

If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.

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