Where somewhere in my brain I process the "baseline" existence as so far below what we have today, and I feel primarily gratitude and wonder for everything capitalism has brought us as opposed to anger that it hasn't delivered more.
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When I was about 7 yo, I donated the penny I earned as weekly pocket money to what was called in Ireland, “The Black Babies”. I did this for over a year. It was years later I realized it was to assist the Ibo victims of famine/genocide in Biafra.
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Imagine having all your teeth rotten and blackened, up to a point where your jaw starts to rot too. That's Louis XIV the Great, the Sun King, "l'état, c'est moi", the most powerful man of his time. Anyone living today with access to dental care is more rich and powerful then him.
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how much warring in europe was caused by, essentially, physical pain? I know when i've been really sick, I don't act rationally and chronic pain sufferers have less patience in general (which is why they need medication).
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I’m not sure. I lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a kid and mostly what it solidified for me is how much I want people in places like that to have access to the things we do, and how much I want people here to have equal access to the marvels of our world.
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Because in Canada there are still places (Native reservations) without good electricity or safe drinking water. And sure, some of that is due to mismanagement and corruption by the Native governments, but a ton of the reason is we just can’t be arsed to fix the problem.
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what do you consider to be the worst things capitalism has given us?
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Gratitude inspires conservatism. Envy inspires utopian progressivism.
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Imposition of inter generational guilt inspires a desire for exoneration. Slavery could have been stopped in Africa but it wasn't. Any statues there going down?
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