@becha@v.st
ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
- i deserve to spend time doing things that make me feel good and whole.
- i am capable of listening to my body and responding to what it needs.
- it's okay if i no longer have ambitions for a career.
- i am worth so much more than what i produce for the consumption of others.
- it's okay to redefine what a successful life looks like for me.
- i am allowed to enjoy things simply because they bring me joy.
- spending time doing something I love is enough
Plot twist...
Those are all capitalist affirmations. At least potentially.
Because if enough of us wholeheartedly valued them, choosing to forgo the other alternatives offered to us, then the market would more determinedly make those sentiments a reality for us.
Mindly.Social
mindsets (@[email protected])To set the record straight on the biggest misconception I see in the Mastodon arena... Many participants in #capitalism desire extreme wealth, but its core rules would be the same whether its participants desired extreme wealth or not. Capitalism could exist either way. Likewise, any other economic system would be just as ruinous if certain participants desired extreme wealth. It's not mostly the system that does the harm. It's mostly the nature of the desires that participants bring to it.
This is an interesting point that I've been thinking about. This could really drive a revolution. On the other hand, the worldview that supports capitalism labels humans as consumers; undermines agency, reduces relationships to transactions, distorts freedom and weakens democratic participation. But if we harnessed the market to the health of people & ecosystems ... good things would happen.
