44 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 25 Sep \ on: The Whipping Boy of Modern Culture - CAPITALISM bitcoin
How ironic it is, that when the 1st world was blaming shortcomings to capitalism, thinking of socialism as a superior alternative, we in the 3rd world of socialism recognized it inferior and sought for capitalism JUST at the exact time the 1st world started rushing towards our ill-fated system. No amount of warning and evidence seems to work. We look at this greek-allegory-level phenomenon in awe and distress.
Honestly I think some of the appeal of blaming Capitalism is that its some big bad thing that can be the whipping boy for all our own flaws as humans. Greed, lust, selfishness, fear, and sloth. Humans have always had these flaws.
It is hard for me to take these people seriously. The people I read/hear complain about capitalism and its ills. They very often are soft, privileged, and spoiled people. They drink expensive coffee in a hip coffee shop while complaining on their expensive iPhone. They haven't ever worked with their hands or wondered if they would be able to buy food. They rarely are from a blue-collar background.
I know I'm ranting and over-simplifying but it just gets old. We humans are prone to be reactionary. I'm doing it now actually. Its just so easy to do.
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It's ok, we actually have the exact same phenomenon here, down to every detail you mentioned. The pejorative term here is "leftie with OSDE" (OSDE is THE most expensive high-elite health insurance service in the entire country), "leftie with iphone", "snowflake", "macchiato leftie", etc. It's the exact same pattern.
Yet, while we despise them, they are not a major driving force. The biggest problem is and has always been just sheer ignorance from the general population, in the exact same way the USA has been affected too: republicans have no other distinction from democrats other than conservatism. Milei was the first referent ever to explicitly and vehemently point out that fact, a bold move because it attacked both parts of the electorate, with the intention to create a third one (a move that to many seemed unbearably paradoxical). The fact he did pulled that off against all odds is nothing short of a Napoleonic-level political victory.
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