Why do so many writers whine about capitalism? What's wrong with having a Big Mac at McDonald's?
poor understanding of economics (labor theory of value is nonsense) and history (hegel is retarded) combined with a sense of entitlement. capitalism does suck but thats because existing sucks
>>24977318>What's wrong with having a Big Mac at McDonald's?
big macs would be free were it not for capitalism
>>24977422No, healthy burgers would be free and easily picked up in the local kitchens or your own if you want to make them. If not for state-capitalism.
This book is only popular because it's 90 pages.
Crazy how capitalism defenders boil down to " i haz cheese burger". Sad!. Were the defenders of monarch-feudalism that retarded?
>>24977318the problems isn't eating at mcdonalds, but having to work there.
>>24977318The Class/Economic interests of writers and artists don't mesh well with capitalism. Ironically Marxism is very relevant here in explaining their motivations.
Because they are retarded faggots. Almost all critiques on capitalism are thinly veiled and pedantic critiques on God.
>>24977496Nope. Even if you get all this stuff done through automation (and reach Marxist end of scarcity) you still have the real problem.The concept that you have to earn/make money.
capitalism is just an extension of darwinism. liberals are the ones who get selected out of procreation, so its only natural theyd rebel against nature itself. a war they can never win.
>>24977318Fuck your false flag threads, Marxist troon.
>>24977318I would rather have an alternative to statism.
The only critiques of capitalism that make sense are right-wing critiques. It makes much more sense to criticize capitalism for depriving us of Tradition and Meaning than it does to criticize it because has prevented Marx's utopian bullshit from coming to pass, as if it were ever going to.
>>24977318These "thinkers" are basically in a long line of Frankfurt accolates who bark at notions of "just let people enjoy things". Libertarians just believe in abstinence but these types, anti-Stalin but descended from the same lineage, command no one else partakes, either.
>>24977669Marxist (political) utopian vision doesn't happen, true. It is a fiction, but so is this critique from the right-wing. There has never been a critique of the status quo from the slave or serf, because, as you say, they only want what they consider to be Tradition and Meaning. But these things the state assigned them to be their new Tradition and Meaning. Tradition: "Stay on that plot of land, provide me with annual harvests of grain and one or two of your sons for the military, plus luxury taxes"Meaning: "Attend church weekly and on holy days. Do as you're told"This continued for centuries in many places and some people even want it back. Why? There are older and better traditions and meanings.
>>24977481Where are these monarcho-feudalists you speak of? In your head?
>>24977444Does it have a list of references or further reading at the end?
>>24977704Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land?
>>24977704Historically represented if you read the right history books.There were plenty of people who didn't really want to go to the new factory towns. They wanted to stay on their farmlands but industrialization forced many out. You can see it in the works of Hugo or Dickens and others. And then there's the Spanish priests. They certainly hated the revolutionaries. Republican, socialist or anarchist.
>>24977318The type of people who become writers tend to be left leaning humanities majors with an inflated sense of their own intelligence. This group suffers from a few consistent delusions which come up over and over again in history.First, the general lack of objective metrics for truth/bullshit beyond the popularity of a idea is a plague which causes humanities majors to get pulled into an endless spiraling singularity which is located directly up their collective asses. They commit the same sin over and over and over again where they come up with an imagined, overly simplistic model of how the world works and then try to engineer a path towards a utopia based on their flawed understanding. The issue is that, since the model sucks, this always ends up failing spectacularly. To escape this fallacy you need to acknowledge that the world is more complex than something that can be reduced down into the kind of simplistic, academic model which appeals to these kinds of people. Unfortunately, this is heresy, since that acknowledgement would totally deflate a lot of their own perceived importance. This is why you get "Real communism has never been tried!" over and over and over again despite the obvious failures of "real communism" every time it encounters reality. How much people like your theory doesn't matter very much if it always implodes on contact with reality.Second, western left leaning intellectuals have a bit of a positivity bias stemming from the general lack of experience many of them have with actual hardship. They incorrectly believe that the opposite of bad is good. In reality, the opposite of a bad option is often a worse option. Because capitalism has obvious flaws many seem to inherently believe that the alternative must be better. The countless historical examples of that not being true don't seem to be enough to break this retarded belief.
>>24977716you haven't read either of them if you think that's what they advocate for.
>>24977434lol, how fucking old is this quote. Thanks to the latest round of Trumpflation following the Bidenflation roast beef is now like $14 a pound.
>>24977318What annoys me is when people treat capitalism like a bogeyman, blaming all the ills of the world on it as if it's a physical force that exists in reality
>>24977653>The concept that you have to earn/make money.What's the alternative?
>>24977318>Why do so many writers whine about capitalism?Because of the march through the institutions of different flavors of socialist and Marxist through all aspects of the education system, and the fact that most people have the economic literacy or knowledge of a ape. In otherwords unless you go out of your way to educate yourself on economics properly away from captured institutions you will intentionally be kept ignorant and manipulated to believe evil bullshit.
>>24977667Can't even self isolate away from the state. They will come out to the middle of nowhere just to fuck with you, especially if you aren't "playing along" with their bullshit.
>>24977875Stealing stuff from productive people obviously.
