alt Hacker NewsNot to sound like a hippie but we could just try to be a bit kinder to each other and not put money as the single most important thing above all else. You can run a business to make money AND do it in a way that leaves our world in a slightly better state than you found it.
It’s not a black and white choice of either we jump hardcore into capitalism or all the other way into socialism.
Similarly to OP I work at a company that has a certain set of core values and the moment they have changed irreversibly I am gone out the door.
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I'm not following you. Capitalism just means free market. Private individuals own the companies instead of the government, and they do that with the main goal of making money.
I can't figure out why that must necessarily mean that those companies can't leave the world in a slightly better place. A LOT of them do, specially small businesses.
I've seen the destruction that socialist governments left even after decades and I went to Cuba and other socialist countries and the government treats them like literal slaves and life is shit over there, with no way out.
Anyways, I know of capitalism, socialism, and communism. I just wanted to see if you meant another form that I wasn't aware of.
So you're talking about a set of values, not the economic system. The "capitalism" mention was bit of a non-sequitur, then.