Row 51213

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It's an observed pattern. Every system has weaknesses, and the economic structure that we call capitalism isn't an exception. Capitalism rewards short-term profit maximization and consolidation of wealth into progressively fewer hands - the way for a person or organization to Do Well is to put acquiring wealth and power ahead of all other considerations. Eventually, this runs into the inflexible reality that the economy is an artificial system that only functions if enough people are willing participants. People begin having issues with said system in sufficient numbers that some degree of reform or even replacement of that system becomes plausible. Those individuals and organizations which are primary beneficiaries of the system tend to have only a few practical reactions to potential change: denial, acceptance, or opposition.

Denial eventually becomes one of the other two, so it's not particularly important here.

Acceptance requires either exceptional self-awareness or exceptional self-sacrifice (or both). There are always wealthy people who believe that the system is unfair in their favor and welcome or even work towards systemic change. Prior to capitalism, these were royals and nobles who funded and cooperated with revolutionaries whose success would disempower said nobles - an exercise in both self-awareness and sacrifice, a degree of human decency in the ballpark of Jimmy Carter, Jonas Salk, etc.

Opposition is the most common reaction, and capital relies on authoritarian methods. Fascism requires no specific ideology beyond performative loyalty, no economic paradigm shift, and offers enormous financial gains to its wealthy backers. Those gains are obviously and ostensibly *taken* from someone, but exploitation and coercion have *always* been the most profitable option. Therefore dramatic expansion of exploitation feels "normal" to a significant enough portion of the wealthy class to make fascism *seem* like a good option... for a little while. That prioritizing of short-term profits *also* conditions people to be less concerned with the long-term impact of how those profits are realized.

That's the extremely short reductive incomplete summing-up off the dome I can manage today, at least.

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text It's an observed pattern. Every system has weaknesses, and the economic structure that we call capitalism isn't an exception. Capitalism rewards short-term profit maximization and consolidation of wealth into progressively fewer hands - the way for a person or organization to Do Well is to put acquiring wealth and power ahead of all other considerations. Eventually, this runs into the inflexible reality that the economy is an artificial system that only functions if enough people are willing par…
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