cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/692619/capitalism-vs-humanity
Humans suddenly evolve into a species getting off on electrocution.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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If you whip your horses they pull the chariot faster.
If you keep whipping them they pass out from exhaustion or injure themselves and have to be killed.
Good thing there are 8 billion other horses clamoring to fill the gap.
Reminds me how Amazon started running low on people willing to work in its warehouses.
Just need to build it further away, you already killed the competition in the area so the residents can pay extra.
"Why are you collapsing from exhaustion on company time? That's not being a team player. Get up or you're fired!"
electrocutes you when you think about your wife
Fuck yeah, sign me up. But now I'm masturbating at my desk instead of in the bathroom.
electrocutes
Yeah, but just the one time.
It's funny how many people don't get electrocute means dead, shock means survived.
Honestly the use of "electrocute" as "major electric shock" is common enough that I'd say it counts as another definition
It's literally a contraction of electricity and execution.
That's the cute part.
Productivity shouldn't be the be all and end all but that's a different debate
People in the US go hungry, the US government has so much cheese in stockpile that they use caves/abandoned mines to store it.
Why use long-term thinking when short-term thinking do trick (in the short term)
It reminds me of the story about that guy who trained his donkey to go with less food, and just as he was getting it to go with no food at all,the stupid animal died.
We don't want people being productive long term. We need to chew people up and spit them out young so we have enough work for the endless unwashed hoards.
But also, we have a declining birthrate problem and nobody wants to work anymore.
And also, AI will do all our work for us and since most of us don't own any capital we can be made into fertilizer.
There is another (way): start building guillotines
Its about how to best exploit you not how to make you most productive.
Capitalism is fine enough if properly regulated. But that, of course, is the problem. Properly regulaing it.
Capitalism will never be sufficiently regulated because the regulators will inevitably become corrupted by and subordinate to capital.
That’s every system in a large society. The mistake we keep making is believing that systems can substitute for relationships and reputations at rooting out bad behaviour.
There will always be corruption, yes. But we can advocate for a system that doesn't center and reward the corruption the way capitalism does
Any system that allows the formation of elites and the centralization of power will suffer the same fate.
That's why I'm an anarchist, but I also know that most people aren't ready for that. That is why for now I'm only advocating for beheading the rich and powerful who are somehow all also pedophiles.
Tell me what magic system is free from corruption.
What a copout
What a shitty answer.
Except no its still bad to allow exploitation of people's labor like that no matter how you try to lower the impact.
it is a problem because the people in power are the ones that have to be regulated.
the only fix is ending capitalism.