Hedonism is the only reason our system works

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>>115145655
*tips fedora*

grow up kid

learn about scarcity

>>115145655
No. If all everyone desired was the tools to do good and altruistic things, someone with the capital and resources would still need to provide said tool and receive compensation for it.

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>20 million people die every five years from lack of access to clean water, food and medicine for preventable diseases
>there are simultaneous starvation and obesity problems
>more empty homes than homeless
>half of the people of the richest country on earth are poor
>capitalism twerks u guize

>>115145655
> Implying humans aren't hedonistic and selfish
> Implying this doesn't make it a great system relatively speaking if kept in check

>>115146141
>omg all these bad things happen
>therefore lets use the government to steal from people

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quick reminder

>>115146266
>you can't improve lives of millions
>because thousands might be deprived of things they have stolen :(

>>115147387
voluntary contracts exchanging scarce goods and services is theft

the government using violence and threats of violence to take money from people is theft

theft is bad

the ends dont justify the means

needy people dont deserve other peoples stuff

>>115147387
> the 1%'s money that will cover free college, free everything, and give food to all the niggers in Africa.

>>115147387
>if we give money to people that can't read, they will surely become productive members of society and not give into their vices, thereby producing even more illiterate, unproductive money drains

decentralized forms of resource distribution that function throw voluntary trade of resources (markets) is the only valid economic system to base your society under.

the question becomes what political structure you based your society under, and how that affects the market. Democracy creations Capitalism, and because we operate under democratic/post-monarchist institutions, we find the market is adequate in meeting the overall needs of society. The problem is democracy and we need to change that system to something non-democratic.

>>115148344
*function through

On the contrary, it's only because we can think in our longtime wellbeing that we can save, invest and increase productivity.