when some of your relatives went through the worst of capitalism and have a toxic mindset surrounding work and self-worth resulting from it today but if you tell anyone they’ll be like “that wasn’t real capitalism stupid commie”
people genuinely don’t take suffering under capitalism seriously, so…
you want to know how all those cool innovative products are made under capitalism?
• trafficking minors into slavery (example – nestle)
• forcing employees to work when the factory they work in is close to collapse, killing lots of people later (example – rana plaza collapse)
• creating environmental disasters permanently affecting people’s health and literally changing the global climate (example – fossil fuel lobby)
• forcing people to live among mountains of garbage and toxic waste (commonly technology and garment industry companies)
• using private paramilitaries to torture and kill people opposing unjust actions of corporations (example – ‘banana republic’ corporations in latin america)
• tricking people into damaging their health with a product supposedly helping them (example – nestle baby formula scandal)
• war profiteering (do I even have to explain fossil fuel companies’ involvement? it’s practically a meme when war is brought up)
• profiting off or aiding oppression and genocide (example – ibm with nazi germany)
• aiding and supporting the installment of genocidal dictators (example – pinochet in chile)
• neocolonialism as globalization (every fucking wealthy multinational corporation)
• land grabbing (example – large companies involved in agribusiness)
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