>people trying to get you addicted to spend money and time(depending on you product or customer) on things you do not require. //
Almost as if the fundamental conflicts built in to capitalism are harmful to us as a species -- who'd have thought treating life as a competition would lead to so many of us losing.
> Almost as if the fundamental conflicts built in to capitalism are harmful to us as a species -- who'd have thought treating life as a competition would lead to so many of us losing.
I think competition was always there. My point is people selling things get smarter.
So it may be a good idea to improve my arsenal too to withstand the forces that be and use what is out there.
> Even if you personally make good decisions if the market for good products is not big enough the addictive products will be all that's available.
Nothing is all good and nothing is all bad, but rather allˋs a shade of grey.
My way of solving the addiction Problem is to get rid of the dark stuff by putting a box on all shady and only letting it through in a controlled manner so only light comes out at the end.
The box is like a teacher, assisting and guiding. Not limiting but supporting with anything I want done.
Existence itself is a competition. "Survival of the fittest" implies that some level of fitness is required to survive. Few macroscopic organisms can go more than a few days without consuming some other thing that was living not long ago, whether plant or animal.
Capitalism creates a realistic incentive structure within the constraints of the real world, including the constraints of the biological systems that undergird human and animal life. It has problems, but by this point, it's well-proven that living under dictatorial fiat disguised as utopian mythology is far worse.
Almost as if the fundamental conflicts built in to capitalism are harmful to us as a species -- who'd have thought treating life as a competition would lead to so many of us losing.