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The normalisation of greed
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Not a day goes by where the direct affects of “line may only go up” capitalism doesn’t destroy another part of the human soul. Every single day in the anglosphere workers are robbed. Every single day in the rest of the world workers are tortured. The dual processes of exploitation and extractivism for capitalist ends are not only the infatuation of the capitalist and political classes, but have so deeply infected the psyche of the worker that new values have taken root in civil society. These are perpetuated by the bourgeois in the vain hope that they will now be saved by the bourgeoisie as the planet burns. There are a few dimensions of interest to our inquiry today. Let’s get cracking! First, greed as a notion historically. From the 15th century, Europe’s leaders leant on desire for wealth, resources, and power amongst other bourgeoisie to leverage brutal globalist expansion. Indeed, even religious “values” de-centr...
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