Is It Just a Product of Being in a Capitalist System?

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i like, i feel, in some ways it's unseemly, almost, for us to talk about this, because that's just not how it is. The underlying ethic of capitalism creates in us this sleg of desires and needs that all ultimately boil down to transactions. That marks thinks is part of a kind of human essence that we're being torn from within us by capitalism. And that has been stripped away from us pitilessly byba capitalism.

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