Aggressive-Act4242 t1_itplhbx wrote on October 25, 2022 at 11:43 AM

Reply to comment by theglandcanyon in Peter Singer Is the Philosopher of the Status Quo by TuvixWasMurderedR1P

Great, we all get to buy more stupid shit at the cost of the planet.

DuckDurian t1_itponmr wrote on October 25, 2022 at 12:13 PM

I'm not sure why OP is getting downvoted for making such an uncontroversial point.

Sure, there are aspects of capitalism that are undesirable. But let's not forget that capitalism has also done far more to solve poverty than it has to create it.

If we want to come up with solutions, we at least need to be honest about the problem we're trying to solve.

theglandcanyon t1_itr8hfp wrote on October 25, 2022 at 6:38 PM

Yeah, life was a lot better a few hundred years ago when all this stupid shit wasn't around and people could just peacefully go about dying from simple dental infections. Those were the days my friend