Humanitarian values should replace economic values as the governing principle of our society.

Apr 18, 2023 路 4:47 AM UTC

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Economic values are humanitarian values. The world has never had more options for consumption, health, way of life. That is because of economic capitalism. We provide the incentives to improve life by creating answers to needs and profitability for those answers. Please go away.
Replying to @marwilliamson
Yes! 馃挴
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The ability to profit off ones' labor is a humanitarian value.
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So, if you have eggs and I have apples but you don鈥檛 need apples, then I trade my apples with someone else for cash and then pay you the cash for your eggs. You can then use the cash to buy things you need. A stable currency IS THE MOST humanitarian thing we can do because currrency is a placeholder for productive and creative value. It鈥檚 only when government puts a gun to our head and demands our money that the humanitarianism ends.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
They probably should. But good luck getting any tribal power chasing platforms posing as virtuous representation to do that. And that includes the DNC. Not to mention the imperial war machines.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
What do you think economics is exactly?
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Lol, virtually all of our problems have deep roots in the US having poor economic values. What the hell is humanitarianism without addressing material needs?
Replying to @marwilliamson
Growing the economy is the best way to improve quality of life for humans. In 1820, average daily purchasing power, in inflation-adjusted terms, was around $2 in the US. Consequently, 40% of children died before the age of five. Two centuries of a market economy has spurred increasing automation/industrialization, which has brought up productivity and with it incomes, to the point that child mortality is less than 1% in the US.