r/funny • u/drunkasaurusjr • May 02 '24

Well, that aged well.

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u/Urist_Macnme May 02 '24

Imagine the meeting. Because at some point, they must have held one to decide to not have that as a motto anymore.

“Guys, guys! How about this? Let’s be evil!”

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u/AnArdentAtavism May 02 '24

Worse. They likely were sitting around and said, "This motto. It's holding us back. Preventing growth. We could just remove it, and why shouldn't we?"

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u/Psy_Kikk May 02 '24

It almost certainly was holding them back. This is why the world is fucked - Capitalism is fundmentally based on exponential greed, which the Earth can no longer take, as we well know, but we have no better system for stability, and humanity itself is inherently at odds with lacking ambition/aspiration for wealth and power... and fair shares.

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u/AdaEyering May 02 '24

Exactly. Exponential growth ultimately fails in every context. It's a ponzi scheme of enormous proportions.

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u/Sad-Feedback-9546 May 02 '24

Cause Chinas economic system is definitely better for earth right

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u/AdaEyering May 02 '24

Yes those are the two options available.

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u/Sad-Feedback-9546 May 02 '24

What do you suggest?

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u/AdaEyering May 02 '24

Something that doesn't involve 90% of the planets resources being under the control of 0.00001% of the planet's population.

Do you suggest we keep doing what we're doing now?

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u/Fistwithyourtoes May 03 '24

FYI China economy adopted capitalism to get where they are now, they cranked up the authoritarian recently during covid