• hark@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Monetizing everything is inherent in capitalism, though. It’s why the auto companies bought up streetcar lines and tore them out to make people more dependent on cars. Capitalism is not responsible for all mental health problems, but there is a clear incentive to promote it so that the capitalist class can sell services, and it wouldn’t be out of the question to over-diagnose or even help create the conditions to gain more customers.

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      11 days ago

      So? How is monetizing everything worse than being a tenant farmer whose lord squeezes everything possible from their serfs. There’s nothing unique to capitalism about the poor being exploited.

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        11 days ago

        Nobody said feudalism is better, in fact my post was saying the opposite and using that to make the point that we can still improve things.