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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7301812

Sorry, but it's true.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for the kind words! One thing I want to say, though, is that it's less that humans are greedy, and more that we are shaped by the way we live, produce, and distribute. Capitalism expresses and reinforces greed, we aren't intrinsically greedy. Social democracy, ie capitalism with large safety nets, is unfortunately both unsustainable and also relies on imperialism to subsidize the safety nets, which is why socialism itself is necessary.