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[–]clownworlddropout 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

Oof, this snart is deep in the communist revolution fantasy...

When you're so antiestablishment you pay the establishment to castrate you. 😎👌

[–]alladd 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's fucking brilliant dude. Selling rebellion to idiots with nothing to stand for because they think defiance in itself is a positive quality, and draining their bank accounts while preventing them from reproducing.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Gotta give them credit it's genius if they intended it. But I don't think they are that competent and far sighted.

Still, if you get your undesirables to give you their money to remove themselves from the genepool while using them to stir up the political shit and rage towards them rather than towards the ruling elites, then they go and self eliminate themselves when they've outlived their usefulness, I definitely see why one would be inclined to think it's a deliberate strategy.

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't think it's actually deliberate down to the precise detail, but I know that it's a product of narcissism, and narcissism is a product of capitalism creating need. Someone noticed a lot of weird, porny narcissism going untreated, and now there's a multi-billion dollar industry embracing it. The fact that it happens to also involve self-castration is, I think, a purely coincidental metaphor.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

and narcissism is a product of capitalism creating need.

Lol no this isn't how it works.

Capitalism exploits narcissism for profit. Capitalism might try to create new needs to exploit for profit, sure. But need, narcissism, all the ugly negatives of human society exist as a part of human society. This is why the communist experiment basically failed, it was filled with a bunch of retarded utopian thinkers that thought that something like selfishness can be eliminated from society if only we got rid of those pesky oppressors.

Capitalism becomes a big problem when it's allows to run unreigned and driven only by the profit motive to the expense of society and the individual good to the complete ignorance of moral good.

But if you think it's creating the narcissists I doubt you've much experience with them. They'll always find ways to make everything about them regardless. The main difference in a capitalistic system is that there are plenty of amoral profit seekers keen on exploiting them.

[–]alladd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree, I didn't mean to say capitalism creates narcissism. But the way it exists now is being fed by it. There's a machine in place to validate it.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it definitely creates the profit incentive to not only exasperate the issue of narcissism but to also make it difficult to deal with since someone now profits off it and doesn't want it to go away.

Too many people fall for the sales tactics without realizing there's a tactic. These days the commercials are everywhere. They sift through your data, your online profiles to target adds directly to you, that's why you need Nord VPN. Yes indeed.