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Capitalism is the paywall of life (feddit.de)

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If they could somehow monetize breathing, they would

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean they already monitize water in poor countries in Africa, so yeah.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How horrible! A profit motive attached to the extraction, purification, and provision of water!

Some people make money they otherwise wouldn’t have and others drink clean water they otherwise wouldn’t have. Hell on earth!

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How else manage resources? You want everybody to be equally poor, like under communism? Maybe except the ruling party. You have no alternative.

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