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But you didn't help create it. People with money did. So you must keep working 40 hours a week while they collect ever increasing sums of money with their capital proceeds.

It's capitalism, not laborism, or humanism. Those with the capital are who the system serves.

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>while they collect ever increasing sums of money with their capital proceeds.

But in the process of doing so the rest of us benefit from all of the goods and services this capital use created. The economy is not about money, it's about stuff. I would much rather Ozempic exist and make somebody rich rather than it not exist, because there are millions of people that benefit from its existence.

As a human, I think I would like some more humanism in my society.

Apparently that’s controversial

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