It's ok to be angry about capitalism
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Having nowhere near that kinda money or stable income, I would literally just have to run away from help if that were me
So, I love the Culture series by Ian Banks. It's actually the series that got me into science fiction. For those not familiar with it, the Culture itself is a utopian anarcho-communist spacefaring society that serves as the background for the stories. The fact that the Culture is anarcho-communist is not subtext. It is extremely text. The term literally appears on multiple occasions. It is constantly emphasized that the Culture does not use money. The book Player of Games is a thinly veiled critique of capitalism.
But somehow, there has always been a sizeable contingent of American libertarians (including Elon Musk, who seems to particularly love Player of Games) who are really, really into the series because they see the Culture as indicative of "American values".
These people genuinely believe that a society where everyone can have basically anything they want and has nearly limitless freedom must be in some way a capitalist society because in their mind capitalism = freedom/high standard of living/anything good, to the point of believing that capitalism does not actually require money. Even literally using the words is not enough to make them realize that what they actually want isn't capitalism.
This is what the end of history does to a MF.
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