• CarrotBottom@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      It wouldn’t exist at all if capitalism didn’t exist.

      People would just get cancer and die like they used to.

      Capitalism is the reason we (and you) have nice things.

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        9 months ago

        Yes, no innovation has been done under any system but capitalism. /s Let’s forget about how totalitarian Russia was the first to space. Let’s forget about how much medicine was developed under the religious authoritarianism of ancient Arabia. Let’s forget about how much philosophy was conceived under feudalism.

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          9 months ago

          Let’s totally forget that The Six Nations managed to maintain a cooperative collective of hundreds of thousands of people for at least 15,000-25,000 years with their environmental impact being quite literally the creation and tending of “The Garden of Eden.”

        • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          arabic numbers bad.

          or is it because edison couldnt claim this to be an american invention aswell? just because america is full of thieves doesnt mean they invented shit.

          rockets…werner von braun

          lightbulb…lumiere

          computer …conrad zuse

          internet…tim

          i am sure americans have invented absolutely nothing and stolen absolutely everything.

          biontech is german, pfizer are the murican scumbags.

          tiktok&wechat… chinese

          are you still on meta or drugs?

      • viking@infosec.pub
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        9 months ago

        I’m sure leaving reddit was a good idea, but joining lemmy might not have been. People here are just delusional in their approach to reality.

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        9 months ago

        It wouldn’t exist at all if capitalism didn’t exist.

        Science doesn’t need capitalism to exist. Technology doesn’t need to be for-profit to be developed.

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        9 months ago

        Did you really think these new vaccine will be affordable? Those nice things are for the rich.

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          9 months ago

          Recently read the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, and in those books an anti aging “vaccine” is made and shared freely for the citizens of Mars, but on Earth where the rich and powerful still control everything, its used as an incentive to come and work for the most powerful companies, or if you have the money then you can buy it.

          I literally hope such a thing is never invented, imagine if the Musk’s, Trump’s, Bezos’, and Putin’s of the world lived for hundreds of years instead of finally fucking dying at 90-100 at most.

          Terrifying.